Fuming over Commercial Ready, Gallaher moves on, Evado launches out and cash flows in.

Protein science meets computer gaming as researchers Foldit.

Melbourne company Invision IT says its Evado software overcomes EDC shortcomings.

Fast-track grants of $100,000 available to small projects addressing big needs from Bill Gates Foundation.

The US-based X Prize Foundation has launched an audacious competition to find a private company that can successfully map 100 human genomes in just 10 days. The winner will receive US$10 million (AU$13.75m).

Pfizer's Peter Corr told the AusBiotech 2005 conference that big pharma and biotech are part of a delicate ecosystem -- and both have key roles to play.

Microsoft and an Italian university have opened a computational research centre to focus on the creation of software applications and computational tools for scientists striving for breakthroughs in biology, the life sciences and drug discovery.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, former US president Bill Clinton, and pharmaceutical company research leaders met last week to discuss ways for drug companies, governments, and public philanthropic groups to work together to develop and deliver drugs to fight infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and HIV/AIDS.

Leroy Hood, president of the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle, has been awarded the 2005 Bio-IT World President's Award.

University of Queensland parasitologist Prof Scott O'Neill has won a prestigious grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the US to work on a remarkable symbiotic bacteria that induces sterility in insects.

Forty years after he coined the most famous law in computing, Gordon Moore still has a few words of advice for the industry.