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.

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”.

A new study has shown that environmental enrichment ameliorates a motor co-ordination deficit in a mouse model of Rett syndrome.

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.

Researchers answer brain tumour ‘cell of origin’ question

Viruses come alive as French scientists discover new family of viruses that infects others

Swedish researchers track down the mutation that causes horses to go grey

Dee Carter and her group have revitalised taxonomy in Australia as well as our understanding of the evolution of the Plasmodium species with the discovery of a long-lost cousin. And they came across it at the bottom of Sydney Harbour.

Australian and New Zealand researchers are part of an international project of mutual interest (and age-old bad jokes) – the sequencing of the sheep genome. The difference for the International Sheep Genomics Consortium is the availability of short-read sequencing technology.