The ability to diagnose breast cancer by studying human hair may sound a little out there, but Sydney company Fermiscan is about to finalise a validation trial of technology that will do just that.

It's been a big year for Starpharma, the Melbourne-based biotech working on a portfolio of applications for its dendrimer technology.

BIO 2008, the world's largest conference for the biotechnology industry, is being held in San Diego from June 16. In our annual preview, we take a look at how the Australian sector is travelling.

Fuming over Commercial Ready, Gallaher moves on, Evado launches out and cash flows in.

Salvador, Warts, Hippo and Yorkie are an eclectically named group of genes that form the core components of a signalling pathway in Drosophila that regulates control of organ size and may have some important parallels with human cancer.

Mantis shrimp can perceive circular polarised light and may use it for sexual signalling.

Peter Klinken and his team are studying key decision makers in blood cell differentiation and leukaemia.

When the heat is on, boys will be girls, at least among bearded dragons.

High performance computing is stimulating collaborative research across state - and country - borders.

It is with best wishes, an open mind and only a modicum of anxiety that we welcome the new era that swept Australia last November 24, when our collective soul dared to tear itself gently but firmly from the grasp of the elderly gentleman in the Wallabies tracksuit and hitch itself to the Kevin07 bandwagon.

US scientists say protons act like neurotransmitters in nematode toilet behaviour.