Australian researchers find that interfering RNA delivered via bacterially-derived minicells can target and kill drug resistant tumours.

Adult muscle stem cells rather than embryonic stem cells could be the key to treating muscular disorders.

Scientists sequence genome of the N2-fixing, soil-living bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii.

Scientists identify gene vital to early embryonic cells forming a normal heart and skull.

Mean new microRNA data analysis method gives sharper results.

Role of key gene in neurodegenerative disorder uncovered.

Genes linked to vitamin D involved in susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.

Mutated mice provide hope for congenital myopathy cure.

Genes might teach us about aggressive behaviour in humans.

The cotton bollworm, the world's most economically destructive insect pest, is having its genome sequenced.

While Friedreich’s ataxia is a rare disorder, tracking down the role of the protein implicated in the disease has opened up new therapeutic potentials.

A pocket of middle Australia on the northern outskirts of Perth is the setting for a proposed biobanking project that even its instigator, Professor Lyle Palmer of the University of Western Australia, calls “ludicrously ambitious”.

A new study has shown that environmental enrichment ameliorates a motor co-ordination deficit in a mouse model of Rett syndrome.

Epigenetics is moving from the laboratory to the clinic and the pharmacy, with several histone deacetylase inhibitors on the market and epigenetic screening likely to become as widespread as genetic screening.

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.

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.

Genome-wide association studies show the way forward for global genomic research.