Polartechnics, Genera and Gribbles join up for HPV self-sampling [ + ]

Fluorescence specialist Fluorotechnics takes plunge with an IPO [ + ]

GTG reports consolidated loss of $5.4 million but representatives still consider the results a win [ + ]

Germline transmission from embryonic stem cells in rats, demonstrated using technologies licensed to SCS [ + ]

Medical diagnostics company completes purchase of German medical group [ + ]

The NSW Supreme Court today sided with Symbion in its contract dispute with Healthscope [ + ]

Beetles and crickets offer the perfect model for studying sexual selection and the primacy of female choice. [ + ]

Forensic examination of the teeth of some of the sailors on the ill-fated Mary Rose shows they were not English.

X-ray vision is just one of the advantages of having both eyes pointing in the same direction.

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. [ + ]

The recent announcement of “the oldest mother ever discovered” made headlines around the world for Dr John Long and his colleagues, but Materpiscis Attenboroughi is just one of numerous finds Long has made at the Gogo Formation in WA over the last two decades. [ + ]

LabTech reports slim profits but expects royalties to boom as PREVI Isola marketed [ + ]

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”. [ + ]

Genera Biosystems is distributing its new HPV test through Gribbles Pathology and promises more in the booming molecular diagnostics field. [ + ]