Negative connotations with the word 'manufacturing' in the community need to be abolished. The reality is that companies once involved in 'smoke-stack' manufacturing activities now are evolving into value-adding enterprises offering products and innovative technological solutions for world markets.

Sydney-based company, Proteome Systems and Australian biotechnology company Gradipore have announced a collaborative agreement to develop and manufacture two-dimensional gel technologies for the proteomics market.

A Joint Statement on Scientific and Technological (S&T) Cooperation, signed by Australia and the USA, is the forerunner to the development of a new S&T agreement between the two countries.

Chemists at the Australian National University have used computer modeling on a simple chemical reaction to develop a new methodology for scientists around the world.

A herd of Australian sheep in Wales is being used as a biological factory to create a new treatment for overdose victims.

Research into combating opportunistic virulent fungal infections in both patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and diabetes has led to the identification of Candida glabrata as the culprit responsible for eight per cent of all hospital-acquired infections.

The horse racing industry has embraced nuclear science, in a bid to keep equine athletes on track. Horses, like human athletes, suffer from a wide variety of stress fractures of the bones. For horses, this damage can have fatal consequences.

Clunies Ross National Science & Technology Award 2001 recipients will be publicly honoured at a formal ceremony and dinner to be held at Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne on Wednesday 28 March 2001.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have invented a cancer drug that starves tumours instead of poisoning them.

For the three decades since the publication of The Population Bomb in 1968 and through his subsequent publications, Professor Paul Ehrlich from Stanford University in California has been alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation.

After more than 30 years of research, Murdoch University Associate Professor Bob Cook has isolated a virus that could be the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS).

The creation of designer plastic drugs, with the potential for reduced side-effects, is the aim of one team of scientists in the UK.

Senator Nick Minchin officially opened Australian biotechnology company Gradipore's global headquarters and laboratory complex.

Monash University's Biological Sciences will be offering a course entitled `Molecular Genetic Techniques for Plant and Animal Cell Biology'. The course will be held from 27 November to 1 December 2000.

Researchers at CSIRO Land and Water and the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (BSES) say investigations into the link between low silicon and yield declines indicate it may be possible for farmers to lift yields by as much as 30-70% in affected soils by adding soluble silicon.