Beetles and crickets offer the perfect model for studying sexual selection and the primacy of female choice.

The cotton bollworm, the world's most economically destructive insect pest, is having its genome sequenced.

While Friedreich’s ataxia is a rare disorder, tracking down the role of the protein implicated in the disease has opened up new therapeutic potentials.

The recent announcement of “the oldest mother ever discovered” made headlines around the world for Dr John Long and his colleagues, but Materpiscis Attenboroughi is just one of numerous finds Long has made at the Gogo Formation in WA over the last two decades.

A pocket of middle Australia on the northern outskirts of Perth is the setting for a proposed biobanking project that even its instigator, Professor Lyle Palmer of the University of Western Australia, calls “ludicrously ambitious”.

Genera Biosystems is distributing its new HPV test through Gribbles Pathology and promises more in the booming molecular diagnostics field.

Epigenetics is moving from the laboratory to the clinic and the pharmacy, with several histone deacetylase inhibitors on the market and epigenetic screening likely to become as widespread as genetic screening.

Malcolm Walter has moved his collection of rocks from Macquarie University to the University of NSW, where he has joined Brett Neilan and his colleagues in an expanded multidisciplinary team as part of the new Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA).

WEHI’s Peter Colman wins Victoria’s top science prize

They may have sneered at each other in the past, but collaborative efforts for translational research between academia and industry are happening, and they are working.

Australian medical device company Ventracor is so pleased with its clinical trial design, it’s decided to apply for a patent for it.