Australia harbours one of the world’s richest diversities of venomous species, from spiders and snakes to marine organisms and insects. Venoms play critical ecological roles, helping species hunt, def...

Bioplatforms Australia congratulates all the winners of the 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, announced on 3 September at the Australian Museum in Sydney. Now in its 35th year, the Eureka Prizes r...

Illicit drug use poses a growing public health challenge, with increasingly potent and unpredictable substances circulating in the community. In recent years, new synthetic drugs and dangerous drug mi...

Australian researchers have achieved the most promising advance in brain cancer treatment in two decades, with a new clinical trial showing that a targeted drug can shrink previously incurable tumours...

Scientists have taken a huge leap forward in understanding how sex is determined in reptiles, thanks to complete genome sequences of each genetic sex representative of the Australian central bearded d...

Lead the co-design and delivery of an Aboriginal-led precision medicine program to improve health outcomes in NSW.

Bioplatforms Australia, Australian BioCommons, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) are deepening their long-standing collaboration in life science research, focusing on biological dat...

REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP COMING SOON! Australia’s forests are facing growing pressures—from climate change and invasive pathogens to fire, drought, and habitat fragmentation. These ecosystems are home ...

Network of synthetic biology facilities to develop plants ready for future challengesA recent $20M investment from the Commonwealth has led to the development of Plant SynBio Australia (PSBA), a netwo...

Therapeutic Innovation Australia  (TIA), in partnership with Phenomics Australia, Bioplatforms Australia and ANSTO’s National Deuteration Facility, is thrilled to announce the successful recipients of...

Congratulations to Benjamin Hanrahan, Kirat Alreja and colleagues, whose genome research on the alpine three-lined skink (Bassiana duperreyi) has been selected for the cover of the June 2025 issue of ...

A world-first effort to build an artificial chromosome entirely from scratch in plants has received morethan $12 million in funding from the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) through ...

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ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity | 619 followers on LinkedIn. Training the next generation of leaders in plant biosecurity. | A collaborative Training Centre for postgraduate studies in plant ...

Bioplatforms Australia congratulates Professor Peter Hoffmann from the University of South Australia on receiving the 2025 Australian Council of Graduate Research (ACGR) Award for Excellence in Indust...

The Solutions for Manufacturing Advanced Regenerative Therapies (SMART CRC) has secured $65 million in federal government funding, launching a $238 million national initiative to revolutionise the manufacturing and delivery of life-changing therapies. Bioplatforms Australia is proud to be an Industry Partner of the SMART CRC, helping to drive the development of scalable, safe, and accessible […]

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Research led by Benjamin Hanrahan and Kirat Alreja has achieved a milestone in Australian reptile genomics with the sequencing of the Alpine three-lined skink (Bassiana duperreyi), a native lizard fou...

The OzBarley Initiative is transforming barley research in Australia with the creation of a national data asset that integrates genetic (genotypic) and trait-based (phenotypic) information. This innov...

The data created in this initiative aims to support applications across:

The Integrated Pest Management Omics (IPM Omics) Initiative is pleased to announce that the 2025 Request for Partnership is now open! REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP GUIDELINES IPM OMICS INITIATIVE – BACKGROU...