Avian evolutionary tree shaken up by phylogenomic study - falcons fly free

The grandmother hypothesis suggests women survive for years after menopause in order to help their offspring to reproduce, but why do human females stop reproducing in the first place?

"Contemporary evolution" in action as commercial fisheries take the biggest and boldest.

US researchers develop test vaccine that prevents development of prostate cancer in mice.

UQ neuroscientists add more weight to the "use it or lose it" model for brain function.

Method to better interrogate H5 flu virus protein developed by Australian and international researchers.

Scottish and Australian researchers have identified a protein marker for thymic and possibly pancreatic stem cells.

Immunoregulatory T-cells wane with age in some people, triggering type 1 diabetes.

A rapid diagnostic test for Chlamydia will be available next year.

Sydney researchers have identified the components of telomerase, the enzyme associated with uncontrolled cell growth, and have come up with a nifty method for purifying it.

Genomics Collaborative (CGI), a clinical genomics-based discovery company, and Lion Bioscience, a supplier of IT solutions for the life sciences, have created GCI Clinical, a database of demographic, epidemiological, and medical information that is designed to complement GCI's Global Repository, a database of more than 115,000 human DNA, serum, and tissue samples from patients worldwide.