Murdoch Uni wins grant to research turning algae into energy

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.

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.