US research investigates the evolution of the mammalian placenta.

Cancer stem cells created with technique developed at Stanford University.

Two local scientists are off to the BIO convention in June after winning the Advance BioBusiness award.

US researchers have isolated the multipotent progenitor cell in humans for the first time.

A new dimension to commercial next-generation sequencing applications - one that could potentially pose a threat to more-established microarray technologies - has been revealed in two recent papers.

Mosaic mouse model allows neuroscientists to see how Fragile X and Down syndromes cause problems in the neural network.

MicroRNAs play a role in the immune response to antigens, a new study has found.

Gene silencing by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has emerged as an extremely useful technology for discovery biology, but off-target activity has proved a stumbling block. Detailed mechanistic insights and chemical modification of siRNAs can now improve the robustness of RNAi experiments, as Kate McDonald reports.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006 to Roger Kornberg of California's Stanford University for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.

American geneticists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of RNA interference, a mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information.

The power of array CGH to detect chromosomal losses and gains across the genome is sparking moves into clinical diagnostics, as Kate McDonald reports.