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.

Agilent Technologies is showing off one of its new Q-TOF mass spectrometers at the AOHUPO/PRICPS conference in Cairns this week.

Joint NSW/Victorian project to compare three types of stem cells

Victoria and California sign first MOU on inter-country stem cell research

Two West Australian high school students place highly in international biotech competition

Sharks become lifesavers – rather than lifesaver-eaters – in Victorian malaria research

Queensland to launch fellowship program as part of Smart State program, Mark III

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.

Deciphering vertebrate development, sorting out the roosters from the hens and taking on bird flu – dare we say, all in one fowl swoop – that is the job of CSIRO’s Dr Mark Tizard, who has created a new microRNA catalogue for the humble chook.

Rightly or wrongly, concerns over GM crops contaminating their non-GM kin have led to a stalemate in progress towards acceptance of GM crops and foods. We look at a new approach using gene silencing and gene imprinting.

The ongoing drama that is debate over the hobbit fossils of Flores has been reignited by a recent paper suggesting H. floresiensis is actually H. sapiens suffering from cretinism. An interesting theory or a ‘travesty’?

US company Thermo Fisher Scientific has achieved a number of breakthroughs in RNAi technology in the last couple of years and says it has come up with another – a method for delivering siRNAs to all cells, even the tough ones.

Strange beasts evolve on islands: flightless bats and birds, amphibious or monstrous lizards, huge tortoises, giant rodents, dwarf elephants and even humans, such as the famous ‘hobbit’, H. floresiensis.

Australian scientists to study iPS cells from Thompson lab.

New fish species named after veteran US postman