The Australian Stem Cell Centre announces new funding scheme with four areas of emphasis.

Dory and Marlin would likely have had an easier time finding Nemo if the new version of Google Earth was around at the time.

HalcyGen completes recruitment for SUBA-Itraconazole trial

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

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.

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.

Circadian moves from 'biotech incubator' to drug development company

Australian scientists to study iPS cells from Thompson lab.

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.

Kriek follows Watson in having DNA sequenced.