Australian researchers urge HIV-positive people on antiretrovirals to continue practising safe sex

The July/August 2008 issue of Australian Life Scientist is out now.

The biotechnology sector in Australia is fuming at the Federal Government, according to the editorial in the latest issue of ALS

Caution against targeting HMGB1 protein in inflammation drug development

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

Researchers discover Lrh1 gene regulates and blocks ovulation

Mesoblast’s allogeneic stem cells in trial for diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.

Professor Alan Cowman of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute will deliver the Rubbo Oration at this year’s Australian Society of Microbiology (ASM) annual meeting, being held in Melbourne next week.

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.

Avian evolutionary tree shaken up by phylogenomic study – falcons fly free

Mental and physical exercise stimulates Rett mice

Finnish research finds new role for VEGFR-3 in angiogenesis

NZ biotech Symansis has bought Apollo Cytokine Research.

Put together a mixture of biologists, biochemists and physicists and you might get a lot of blank faces, particularly when hard-core physics is being discussed. However physics and biology have come together to solve one of science’s big issues – the structure of membrane proteins – through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science.

From testing fat in sausages to dissecting the proteome of the lung-infecting fungus Cryptococcus gattii – it’s been quite a journey for Associate Professor Ben Herbert, one of the speakers at this week’s AOHUPO/PRICPS conference in Cairns.