Rightly or wrongly, concerns over GM crops contaminating their non-GM kin have led to a stalemate in progress towards acceptance of GM crops and foods. We look at a new approach using gene silencing and gene imprinting.

Can Tim Flannery make it three in a row for science in the Australian of the Year awards tomorrow?

Professor Jenny Graves is internationally renowned for her research into mammalian genetics and chromosomal evolution. To explain her research to a lay audience, she talks about topics we all take a perverse interest in: sex and weird animals.

Prof Ian Frazer, inventor of the world's first cancer vaccine, Gardasil, has been named Australian of the Year.

Ruth Beran asked Sir Gustav Nossal about Australia's latest institute -- which just happens to bear his name.

Australia's best-known and most venerable medical research institute, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville, Melbourne, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Graeme O'Neill interviewed the Hall's former director, Prof Sir Gustav Nossal, and his successor, Prof Suzanne Cory, about the institute's history and their view of science in Australia today.

The Victorian government has presented a birthday gift for Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research: a AUD$50 million contribution towards the cost of a new seven-storey wing that will double the institute's size.

This month, an international movement was quietly born -- one that aims to loosen the grip of the world's biggest life science corporations on key enabling technologies and patents for biotechnology R&D.

Australia's first ever Cooperative Research Centre is winding up operations. Melissa Trudinger joined its stakeholders for a look back at its successes.

They seek it here, they seek it there, but it remains hidden in the genetic thickets of flowering and seed development. A place in history awaits its finder.

Calling today a "red letter day" for the Australian National Synchrotron project, Victorian Minister for Innovation, John Brumby, announced that Australian construction company Thiess was the successful tenderer to design and construct the building to house the 67 metre diameter machine, 30 plus beamlines, and associated laboratories, offices and technical facilities.