The third round of the Tarac Environmental Future Fund (TEFF) has been launched in Adelaide during the Wine Industry Technical conference.

The Iemma Government is offering grants of up to $100,000 to help life science companies commercialise their research, Minister for State Development Ian Macdonald announced today.

The Australian Synchrotron is officially open for business. [ + ]

A variant in the gene responsible for the production of the interleukin-7 receptor linked to multiple sclerosis. [ + ]

The global market for microscopes and accessories will rise from around $2.1 billion in 2006 to $3.6 billion by 2012, according to a recent report published by BCC Research.

US researchers have created a mouse HapMap, a freely available map of genetic variation in the laboratory mouse genome. [ + ]

Nine-headed gene in Drosophila thought to have developed from transposon. [ + ]

A NSW PhD student is looking at a cotton fungus to understand its interaction with other seedling pathogens. [ + ]

Australian researchers at the Advanced Wastewater Management Centre will receive extra backing from the International Science Linkages fund for the development of a more efficient method of processing wastewater.

SA company offers IPO to further commercialise monoclonal antibody technology. [ + ]

Research shows that the use of one antibiotic increases resistance but also increases the carriage of resistance genes against other classes of antibiotics. [ + ]

CSIRO and universities come together to research new grain varieties with higher fibre. [ + ]

The 2008 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics has been won by Prof Mandyam Srinivasan, head of Visual Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute.

Starpharma's anti-HIV and herpes microbicide is well tolerated by men, the company told the IAS conference today. [ + ]

Three SNPs identified in HIV+ people may help delay disease. [ + ]