Thirty Australian scientists will be going to Europe to undertake collaborative research, courtesy of the Federal government. [ + ]

Scientists at CSIRO Plant Industry are breathing life back into degraded patches of native bushland by identifying ways to improve its health, as well as survival and re-establishment rates.

Two Flinders University lecturers have developed a computer algorithm that can be used to detect an invasive form of breast cancer that is often undetectable on screening mammograms.

Solutions to the Tower of Babel annotation problem that haunts genomics databases are showing they can shave "several years" off the drug discovery process according to a leading US bioinformatics worker. [ + ]

Australian epilepsy researcher Prof Sam Berkovic has been awarded the 2002 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Australia Award for Research Excellence for his pioneering discoveries of the genetic causes of epilepsy. [ + ]

Having been promised the world, impatient shareholders of Sydney-based separations company Gradipore were demanding answers at Thursday's company AGM at the Australian Stock Exchange. [ + ]

Cerylid and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute have set up a collaboration to look for new anti-cancer drug leads, using Cerylid's natural products library as a source. [ + ]

IBM has forged a multimillion dollar research pact with the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) which promises a great leap forward for Australia's bioinformatics sector. [ + ]

A new technique for fingerprinting DNA from a single cell may have tremendous potential for forensic investigations and other applications, allowing individuals to be identified from just one cell. [ + ]

An embarrassing oversight has forced a listed company controlled by self-styled "corporate rationaliser" Farooq Khan to lift its takeover offer for biotech Biota Holdings. [ + ]

When you think of the Human Genome Project, images of banks of sequencing machines pumping out millions of base pairs of information comes to mind. According to Dr John Barlow, Melbourne divisional manager of the Australian Genome Research Facility, state-of-the-art sequencing is still largely electrophoresis-based. However, sequencers have come a long way since the days of pouring your own sequencing gel and using radioactive dideoxynucleotides. [ + ]

Microarray technology is now a major tool available to the geneticist. The technology allows researchers to look at the expression of a vast array of genes simultaneously, and myriad applications have been found in the last few years. But deciding on the best microarray system for the needs of the research is a difficult task, with several choices available. [ + ]

'Victorians: Bright Ideas, Brilliant Future' -- a new innovation statement from the Victorian government announcing $310 million in new funding for science, technology and research initiatives -- was today launched by State Premier Steve Bracks and Innovation Minister John Brumby. [ + ]

Medica Holdings has raised $3.25 million in a private placement to leading Australian institutional investors. [ + ]

The annual competition for research grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has been fought and and won -- and 406 projects have won the prestigious, peer-reviewed right to share in this year's funding pool of $150 million. [ + ]