The new Gene Technology Access Centre (GTAC), which opened its doors in Melbourne today, aims to "blast away" some of the mythology of the scientific enterprise, according to one of its founders.

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

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) has been re-launched as a Bio21 initiative following the receipt of $90,000 over three years from the Victorian State government Department of Industry, Innovation and Regional Development's Office of Science and Technology for the program.

The thing about bioinformatics, according to Prof Terry Speed, is that it tends to attract people from a variety of disciplines, such as physicists with programming skills not interested in a career in defence, or mathematicians with a practical bent.

In the biggest party the science community has ever seen, Australia was a wallflower.