Research into mosquitoes and the transmission of malaria conducted by the University of Technology, Sydney, in collaboration with the Australian Army Malaria Institute (AMI), has sparked international interest.

Queensland-based Peplin Biotech has raised $AUD3.5 million before expenses through the placement of five million shares at $AUD0.70 to domestic and international institutional investors. [ + ]

New South Wales science minister Frank Sartor has continued to boost the state's commitment to research by calling for a panel of eminent researchers to help develop a medical research strategy for the state. [ + ]

Eiffel Technologies' CEO Christine Cussen has joined the company's board as an executive director. [ + ]

Australian scientists have given the human family tree a dramatic pruning following a detailed study of genetic data from humans and chimpanzees.

University of Melbourne scientists have found a chink in the flu virus's armour that could hold the key to preventing the next predicted pandemic.

Gradipore director John Manusu, one of the founders of the Sydney company, has called for a general meeting on June 30 to remove the other four directors and elect two new ones. [ + ]

The report on the protection of human genetic information released yesterday by the Australian Law Reform Commission and the NHMRC's Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) was the most comprehensive review on the laws covering genetic information and privacy in the world, according to Prof Don Chalmers, dean of law at the University of Tasmania. [ + ]

Leon Ivory, the founder of Perth-based VRI BioMedical, resigned last night, effectively bringing to a close two months of sometimes bitter feuding between the company's board and one of its largest shareholders. [ + ]

UNSW's molecular biology department has collaborated with the university's fine arts department to launch a unique online genome research laboratory, Visualising the Science of Genomics (VSG). [ + ]

University of Queensland and Institute for Molecular Biology researcher Prof David Craik has isolated a protein that could help stop the advance of the voracious Helicoverpa caterpillar through our agricultural backyard. [ + ]

Trading in shares of Sydney-based company Gradipore were halted this afternoon after one of the company's directors sought to call a shareholder meeting to remove four directors from the board and elect two new ones. [ + ]

Sydney-based clinical systems company Détente Systems has scored a major international coup, selling its gene database system to the prestigious Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in the UK. [ + ]

Sydney's Brain Resource Company, a compiler of global brain function databases, has benefited from a 13.5 per cent, $AUD2.5 million share buy from a mystery investor. [ + ]

With Cephalon and its takeover retiring behind the sidelines - officially, at least -- Sirtex is back to business, according to founder and CEO Bruce Gray. With a changed team if necessary. [ + ]