High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre launched in Canberra

Murdoch Uni wins grant to research turning algae into energy

Applications for the Pfizer Australia Research Fellowships close on Monday

The ongoing drama that is debate over the hobbit fossils of Flores has been reignited by a recent paper suggesting H. floresiensis is actually H. sapiens suffering from cretinism. An interesting theory or a 'travesty'?

With the lifting of two moratoria on genetically modified crops in Australia recently, so did the inevitably polarised debate take off. Those for and against are unlikely to change their minds and, unfortunately, some scientists are now afraid to speak theirs.

Salvador, Warts, Hippo and Yorkie are an eclectically named group of genes that form the core components of a signalling pathway in Drosophila that regulates control of organ size and may have some important parallels with human cancer.

Tom Gonda has taken a robotic approach to functional genomics.

Researchers find microscopic copy number variations associated with X-linked mental retardation.

Jock Findlay becomes an AO in this year's honours list.

Australia's largest biotechnology company, CSL, has released preliminary data on a novel antibody therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia.

Extra insurance for the Tasmanian devil announced as scientists fear for its future.