Biofuels - North America and India are into it in a big way, Brazil wants everyone to play, and China is spending a packet to join in. Now a group of Queensland biotechnologists have teamed up with the Swiss to sweeten the game.

Brisbane's Farmacule will partner Syngenta and QUT to develop sugarcane-derived biofuels.

The legal mists are lifting from Black Mountain in Canberra, and Mountain View in California, clarifying the ownership of key patents on RNA interference (RNAi) gene silencing technology.

EU environment ministers dealt a blow to efforts to get more GMO crops grown in Europe as they agreed to uphold eight national bans on genetically modified maize and rapeseed types.

An article published on September 8, headlined 'Nucleonics challenges Benitec-CSIRO RNAI patent' contained errors relating to the timing of the filing of key patents.

Pennsylvanian anti-viral therapeutics developer Nucleonics has opened a new front, on Australian soil, in its battle with Brisbane biotech Benitec (ASX:BLT) and Australia’s national research agency, CSIRO, over ownership of key patents for the revolutionary gene-silencing technology called RNA interference (RNAi).

Monday is M-Day for Victoria: will the Bracks government end its 12-month, voluntary moratorium on commercial cropping of genetically modified canola, imposed in May last year?

The prospect of Australia's cotton industry returning to the continent's well-watered tropics has enticed a new player to test its transgenic wares against the insect monsters that ate the Ord.

The big legal guns have fallen silent, and Queensland biotechnology company Benitec (ASX:BLT), CSIRO and Queensland's Department of Primary Industries have shaken hands on a landmark agreement that will allow CSIRO and Benitec to pursue their commercialisation of the revolutionary gene-silencing tool known as DNA-directed RNA interference (ddRNAi).

Brisbane 'green' agbiotech company BioGlobal has signed a cooperative R&D agreement with the US Department of Agriculture to develop its 'killer application' -- a cocktail of volatile floral compounds to lure noctuid moth pests to a lethal rendezvous

The European Union's top court has ruled that Italy had the right to ban genetically modified maize that was allowed for use in the EU if it had solid grounds to suspect it posed a health risk.