Nine Australia Fellowships, worth $36 million in total, have been awarded by the NHMRC.

It’s an age old debate: nature or nurture. But as Emma Whitelaw is finding, our individual differences may be due to neither, they might be down to dumb luck.

The coral genome project is underway, powered by Illumina’s latest Genome Analyzer IIx technology. David Miller from James Cook University hopes it will help save the coral from the blight of bleaching.

Australia's newest and most powerful supercomputer, set to rocket into the world's top 40, will be launched in Canberra today.

Researchers to map genome of Australian coral, the first aquatic animal to be sequenced in this country.

New insights into the potential risks of exposure to carbon nanotubes.

Sequencing the DNA of a woolly mammoth frozen in permafrost and the shortly to be published genome of the Neanderthal is exciting – and very popular – science. And while Australia doesn’t have the right geological history for momentous work like this, we do have the ability to solve some interesting local questions, such as what wiped out our megafauna.

A study into two rare metabolic disorders shows that what may look like simple recessive or semi-dominant patterns of inheritance, may actually involve complex interactions with several other genes.

High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre launched in Canberra

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.