With plenty of food why do 1 billion people still go hungry or are malnourished? By 2050 we will have another 3 billion people. What is sustainable intensification and where does science fit into this picture?

A husband was denied the right to have his wife’s life support switched back on to allow collection of her eggs for conception through IVF. Partners have been allowed to collect dead men’s sperm, so what is the difference?

The passionate seem more driven to act, but how much can they skew the reality of the situation? In this case, quite a lot, it appears.

Who would have thought there could be serious ethical issues with induced pluripotent stem cells – or iPSC.

Our natural biases mean we select information to support what we believe and ignore evidence to the contrary. But does a natural bias extend to thinking science is pointless?

ASME Nanotechnology Institute has begun releasing regular podcasts and videos on nanotech research and applications

CSIRO and the Australian Stem Cell Centre are holding a free public lecture on stem cell research.

Scientist plan to turn cells from endangered animals into sperm and eggs to save them from extinction. Could this money be better spent saving many more species from becoming endangered in the first place?

It is a conundrum. Costly regulatory hurdles to get a GM food to market mean only big multinationals such as Monsanto can afford to take research to a commercial stage.

Cisgenics is being held up as a plant breeding technology distinct from the techniques that produce GM food. I think not.