Two West Australian high school students place highly in international biotech competition

It is now believed that more than 60 per cent of genes are alternatively spliced, a final nail in the coffin, if it needed one, of the one-gene-one-protein hypothesis.

Human evolution has become supercharged in the last 40,000 years, new research shows.

The rate of change in genetic research and the technology at our fingertips is nothing short of a revolution.

Perth will be hosting a major epigenetics conference in November.

Affymetrix launches collaboration to explore the genetic causes of mental retardation.

Affymetrix has officially released its new single-chip SNP 5.0 Array

Affymetrix has developed a single-chip array to measure SNPs and CNVs.

Crunching the numbers from multivariate statistics sounds a rather dry topic to wet lab specialists, but a group of CSIRO researchers has taken a rather philosophical approach to managing the data mountain.

Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has entered into a five-year collaboration with Affymetrix to use the company's GeneChip microarray technology for translational research projects. Kate McDonald reports.

In what could prove to be a landmark event in pharmacogenomic medicine, US firm Clinical Data has launched a phase III clinical trial for the depression drug vilazodone and will concurrently develop a diagnostic test.