Celera formally separates from Applied Biosystems' owner for Invitrogen's $7b buy

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.

Chinese SFDA approves Avita's ReCell for registration

Proteome sells exclusive license to DiagnostIQ test to Bayer CropScience

Medical Therapies concludes purchase of midkine protein IP

Biofuels – North America and India are into it in a big way, Brazil wants everyone to play, and China is spending a packet to join in. Now a group of Queensland biotechnologists have teamed up with the Swiss to sweeten the game.

With the lifting of two moratoria on genetically modified crops in Australia recently, so did the inevitably polarised debate take off. Those for and against are unlikely to change their minds and, unfortunately, some scientists are now afraid to speak theirs.

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.

WA company Epichem and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative are collaborating to develop new drugs to treat African sleeping sickness and similar, forgotten diseases.

Melbourne to host world’s largest life sciences supercomputer in $100 million investment.

IBM now working on second petascale supercomputer for national laboratory