Chimps are to be enlisted in the search for genes that cause diseases in humans and that have so far eluded scientists.

CSIRO scientists are researching an important new weapon in the war against heart disease - plant sterols.

Monash Scientists have successfully grown a genetically engineered plant containing a measles vaccine in a technique that may eventually lead to simpler and cheaper immunisation programs for a range of viral diseases, including HIV and malaria.

Once there was talk of eradicating measles. Yet for now the World Health Organisation is aiming only to cut deaths by half. But virologists warn that measles could stage a murderous comeback if we do not vaccinate more of the world' p soon.< children s>

How Australia can participate in the world-wide photonics revolution - the science of using light to carry information - was the central focus of a national forum hosted by CSIRO in Sydney.

The Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, Senator Nick Minchin, has launched five projects by Australian organisations to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

The Premier, Steve Bracks, said he expected Victoria would be internationally recognised as one of the top five biotechnology locations in the world by 2010.

ANU scientists will use a sensitive new testing procedure to determine whether mobile phone radiation causes harm too subtle to be detected by conventional techniques.

On Monday April 30th Unisearch Limited and IP Australia, the federal agency responsible for patents, trade marks and designs, will present the first in a series of short seminars on intellectual property and aspects of bringing innovations to the marketplace.

Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, Senator Nick Minchin, has welcomed a Memorandum of Understanding between AIMS and the Itochu Corporation of Japan expanding a long standing alliance between Itochu and the CSIRO.

Coherent Life Sciences has been appointed the exclusive distributor of Nikon biomedical and industrial microscopes in Australia.

Scientists, not as a group thought of as the world's greatest comedians, have recently probed the human brain in a bid to find out how people 'get' (understand) jokes.

Bio-Rad Microscience has been selected as lead supplier of laser scanning microscope systems for the new Biophotonics Centre at Strathclyde University, Scotland.

The Australian Academy of Science is offering a special early-career researcher program in conjunction with Science at the Shine Dome on 2-4 May 2001 in Canberra.

Professor Peter Cullen is to become President of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) again.