The Clinical Research Excellence (CRX08) conference starts in Brisbane tomorrow. We talk flu pandemics with plenary speaker Anne Kelso.

The July/August 2008 issue of Australian Life Scientist is out now.

Professor Alan Cowman of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute will deliver the Rubbo Oration at this year's Australian Society of Microbiology (ASM) annual meeting, being held in Melbourne next week.

Dee Carter and her group have revitalised taxonomy in Australia as well as our understanding of the evolution of the Plasmodium species with the discovery of a long-lost cousin. And they came across it at the bottom of Sydney Harbour.

Physics and biology have come together to solve one of science's big issues - the structure of membrane proteins - through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science.

Victoria and California sign first MOU on inter-country stem cell research

Melbourne to host world's largest life sciences supercomputer in $100 million investment.

Wei wins premier award for early-career researchers.

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.

University of Melbourne researchers have extracted genes from the extinct Tasmanian tiger, inserted it into a mouse and observed a biological function.

Hagfish may be ferociously ugly little creatures, but they can teach us much about the evolution of the vertebrate eye.