Stanford chemists have developed a new method of isotopic analysis that does not use mass spectroscopy so it is much less expensive.

An international study involving more than half a million participants in 34 countries has revealed that 70% harbour implicit stereotypes associating science with males more than with females.

Clinical and research cytogeneticists are still using technology predominantly developed in the 1970s for their work, so the emergence of microarrays specifically for cytogenetics is coming as a welcome relief. [ + ]

Mean new microRNA data analysis method gives sharper results. [ + ]

Meta-analysis of surveys questioning scientists about their misbehaviours indicate that fraudulent research is more common than expected, especially in the medical and pharmaceutical fields.

Fundamental biocomputing devices are on the horizon now that synthetic gene networks can give bacteria the ability to count.

It was only 10 years ago that the first high content screening instrument rolled off the production line, and less than three since they started to appear in basic research laboratories. [ + ]

An Australian team has been able to re-grow skeletal muscle in a mouse model using a combination of chemo-ablation and chemo-resistant stem cells. [ + ]

Australian researchers have developed a highly specific PCR-based technique to distinguish between species of intestinal and liver flukes, which should help in epidemiological surveys of these widespread and often dangerous parasites. [ + ]

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those molecules respond to light, observe how the molecules change shapes, and understand other fundamental interactions between molecules and nanotubes.

Soon after scientists first isolated influenza A type viruses from pigs in 1931 and humans in 1933, they watched it break evolutionary barriers with alarming ease — infecting not only humans, but also aquatic birds, poultry, pigs, horses, dogs and other species. Now, with an intensifying outbreak driven by the emergence of a new strain of influenza A(H1N1), scientists once again have a unique opportunity to study viral evolution in action.

Current patent data processing technologies are not up to present and future challenges with large bottlenecks holding up thousands of patent applications all over the world. In Europe, the PATExpert project is offering some solutions.

Sydney scientists are treating the arthritic joints of aged canines with adult stem cells [ + ]

Two Sydney diagnostics company to form Novus Diagnostics [ + ]

Nocturnal mammals have an inverted nuclear structure in retinal cells [ + ]