More indications added to reimbursement schedule for PET imaging

From testing fat in sausages to dissecting the proteome of the lung-infecting fungus Cryptococcus gattii - it's been quite a journey for Associate Professor Ben Herbert, one of the speakers at this week's AOHUPO/PRICPS conference in Cairns.

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.

Astronaut Andy Thomas opens UNSW's new Australian Centre for Astrobiology and gives education funding a serve.

Suzanne Cory and Jim Peacock among top ten most cited Australian researchers.

Apollo aborts mission, investment fund licensed, biotechs move into Phase II trials and NuSep sorts its sperm.

The Australian Research Network for Fluorescence Applications in Biotechnology and Life Sciences (FABLS) has access to a staggering array of Australian and overseas instrumentation and expertise in fluorescence technology and applications.

Rob Learmonth is using his fluorescence expertise to help the most needy - Australia's beer and wine drinkers.

At AusBiotech's targeting tumours session next week, Minomic's CEO, Brad Walsh, will explain how proteomics can be harnessed to diagnose disease.

Winston Churchill called it his 'black dog'. Abraham Lincoln suffered from bipolar disorder, as did German composer Robert Schumann, and Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. And a slew of poets including Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron and Sylvia Plath lived with manic depression.

The Australian government has released new national environmental regulations to control 'bioprospecting' -- the search for new chemicals in living things that will have some medical or commercial use.