Researchers in the US have produced the first sequence-based map of large-scale structural variation across the human genome.

Climate change doesn't come from the atmosphere alone. Ocean currents and temperatures have significant effects and some marine animals thrive when its cold.

Hagfish may be ferociously ugly little creatures, but they can teach us much about the evolution of the vertebrate eye. [ + ]

There is bad news and good news for the owners of ageing human brains. [ + ]

Andrew French's team at Stemagen in the US claims it has succeeded where all others have so far failed - producing the first cloned human embryo from an adult fibroblast using SCNT. [ + ]

All sorts of scientists and research institutions were involved in the development of Speedo's record-toppling swimsuit.

Scientists have identified two proteins that significantly increase the ability of disease-causing bacteria to resist some classes of antibiotics.

Mesenchymal stem cells are being trialled as a potential treatment for graft-versus-host disease, a common complication of bone marrow transplantation. [ + ]

Tom Gonda has taken a robotic approach to functional genomics. [ + ]

It's not the $1000 genome just yet, but Applied Biosystems says it's getting there. [ + ]

E. coli caught on film getting a little cell-on-cell action. [ + ]

One of the criticisms of the new Rudd Government has been about the amount of reviews and inquiries it has ordered since its election four months ago. [ + ]

A small audience of the general public listened to two of Australia's most prominent scientists discuss how the economic costs of trying to reach the 2050 carbon reduction targets of 60% would come at a very small cost to the wider community

Russian researchers have discovered a novel way to generate photocurrent by using proteins found in the sensory and energy-storing systems of photosynthetic bacteria

An automated cancer stem cell screening facility has officially opened at the QBI. [ + ]