In the biggest party the science community has ever seen, Australia was a wallflower. [ + ]

For an industry that's touted as the way forward for Australia's economy, there can be a surprising lack of clarity or consistency of views about the biotech sector's prognosis. [ + ]

Queensland's biotech employment outlook is bright courtesy of a State government committed to pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into bioindustry over 10 years. [ + ]

Biotech newcomers have been a rare event on the Australian bourse in the past six months. [ + ]

One of the extraordinary aspects of the Bio-IT market is the notion of "scale": the scale of scientific discovery, and the possibilities derived from discovery; the scale of growth, which requires looking at multiple dimensions such as the number of biotech companies, VC investments, IT infrastructure build-out, etcetera; and the scale of complexity, by which I mean the elaborate organisational ecosystems emerging in this market. [ + ]

Hsinchu is not just any Taiwanese city, however. For many years, this island of 22 million people has thrived as a manufacturing base for computing hardware, and Hsinchu, with its massive semiconductor factories, has been its high-tech heart. [ + ]

Paul Zyla, director of information systems at the non-profit National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) in Minneapolis, and Martin Maiers, manager of bioinformatics and research systems, discuss how IT meets medicine in an effort to save lives. [ + ]

One of Australia's leading research companies, BresaGen, says it would be forced to move offshore if the use of stem cells for research purposes was banned in Australia. [ + ]

Genetic Technologies (ASX: GTG) is betting that a lot of companies want to use its technology. [ + ]

Analysts and industry experts are widely predicting biotechnology and life sciences to be strong growth areas this year, but in comparison to other Asian markets, Hong Kong seems off the pace. [ + ]

Isotope Coded Affinity Tagging is a strategy for using MS and MS/MS data to concurrently identify and quantify comparative protein expression within complex mixtures

Using photosynthesis as their model, chemists at Washington University in St Louis, North Carolina State University, and the University of California, Riverside have tested molecular electronic switches that turn the flow of light energy on and off

The application of Raman spectroscopy in the field of pharmaceuticals is showing immense potential. Previous progress has been hindered due to the high cost and poor user-friendliness of the old Raman technology

Researchers have found a new example of how the machinery that controls the transcription of DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA) is tailored to specific cells or genes

Water analyses are carried out by many different laboratories for a whole variety of constituents for as many different reasons. Techniques that involve the direct determination of ions present in the water play key roles in these analyses