The Sydney Project aims to have human embryonic stem cells in clinical trials to treat type 1 diabetes in four years.

Family history and social stigma of bipolar disorder affect willingness to have children

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

A new cancer research facility will be built at the University of NSW.

A Sydney research team has shown that encapsulating embryonic stem cells prevents the formation of tumours.

With developments in the embryonic stem cell debate changing as quickly as Melbourne's weather, Kate McDonald asked two of Australia's leading researchers - Stephen Livesey and Bernie Tuch - what would happen should the recommendations of the Lockhart Review be implemented.

A research team at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital has developed and patented a technique for growing human embryonic stem (ES) cells without using animal-derived feeder cells.

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 research community has paid tribute to Justice John Lockhart, the chair of a recently concluded review of Australia's stem cell legislation, who died in Sydney on Friday after a brief illness.

Australian stem cell research experts have spoken out, in a series of statements, of their disappointment in the wake of findings by an independent review panel that a team led by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk fabricated research on potentially groundbreaking papers on embryonic stem cells.

The recommendations from the independent stem cell legislation review committee chaired by former Federal Court judge John Lockhart have been welcomed by many of Australia's stem cell research scientists as well as biotechnology and patient advocacy groups.