NuSep's fertility device among top 20 projects to be funded by ARC

With the lifting of two moratoria on genetically modified crops in Australia recently, so did the inevitably polarised debate take off. Those for and against are unlikely to change their minds and, unfortunately, some scientists are now afraid to speak theirs.

Andrew French's team at Stemagen in the US claims it has succeeded where all others have so far failed - producing the first cloned human embryo from an adult fibroblast using SCNT.

Apollo aborts mission, investment fund licensed, biotechs move into Phase II trials and NuSep sorts its sperm.

Researchers find microscopic copy number variations associated with X-linked mental retardation.

Newly listed biotech and equipment supplier NuSep is involved in clinical trials for its wondrously named Sperm Sorter.

Molecular assassins help Levon Khachigian to Eureka moment.

This second edition has been completely revised to address the exponential changes in the field since the first edition.

Four Australian universities have made an unusual decision to form a 'virtual company', Meristomics, to commercialise discoveries from basic research in their jointly operated ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research (CILR).

Chinese scientists have traced the deaths of around 1500 migratory waterbirds, including geese, gulls and cormorants on isolated Qinghai Lake in western China to a new strain of the lethal H5N1 influenza virus , or 'bird flu'.

A survey of Australian medical research specialists has found that bias and manipulation in reporting of clinical trial results are rife when the trials are sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.