Nowhere is the potential of agricultural biotechnology and GM crops more obvious than in Africa, as Graeme O'Neill reports.

One of the keynote speakers at the 2003 Lorne Cancer conference was breast cancer researcher Mary-Claire King. She tells Bio-IT World's Kevin Davies about a remarkable life in research.

Invitrogen has opened a biosecurity subsidiary in the US state of Maryland, that will focus on research and product development, including detection systems and vaccines, related to pathogens that naturally cause disease but that also could be used by terrorists.

Experts from business, politics, food, farming and development agreed on Saturday to the basis for an ambitious review of how science can help some 800 million chronically undernourished people in the developing world.