Scientists at the University of Queensland (UQ) are using specially designed equipment to determine how to produce food which is better for us, but still tastes good.

Clostridia used as a cancer therapy delivery agent in animal trials. [ + ]

More suspects in the line-up for rheumatoid arthritis risk. [ + ]

Bruker Daltonik has been awarded a $3.5 million contract to supply the Slovenian Army with a series of long-range and point chemical detectors for integration into Slovenia's new lightweight reconnaissance vehicles.

Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) has commenced operations as one of the largest public/private partnerships of its type in the world.

Scientists have discovered the genome of a bacterial parasite incorporated into the genome of its host species, according to a report published recently in Science.

The Millennium Seed Bank Project has collected its billionth variety from across the world for safekeeping and conservation. Simply gathered on the land, in woods and wetlands, the bank's deposits could hold the key to the globe's well-being and every creature that depends on it.

Accessories vendor, Targus, has hired two new channel managers within its commercial solutions division to help drive sales. [ + ]

The NSW government has promised $15 million to help build modern facilities for locally based scientists and researchers.

The clinical trial results of Rhucin, a drug for the treatment of Hereditary Angieoedema (HAE), will be presented at a press conference in London on 30 August.

IBM and university scientists launch global computing effort to find cures for dengue fever, West Nile virus and hepatitis C. [ + ]

Paleoanthropologists believe they have found a 10 million-year-old relative of the human line. [ + ]

US researchers have engineered mice with an obsessive compulsive-like syndrome and linked the disorder to protein in the brain. [ + ]

WEHI researchers find a protein in P. falciparum that helps it evade the human immune system. [ + ]

Scientists at the American Johns Hopkins University have now uncovered the mechanism the body uses to identify and remove errors in the genetic code, according to the prestigious scientific journal Nature.