A cure for coast disease, a wasting disease of sheep, was discovered in the late 1930s by Hedley Marston and […]
In the late 1950s George Bornemissza, suggested that foreign dung beetles could usefully be imported into Australia and led the subsequent research program at the Division of Entomology in Canberra.
An ebullient Welshman, John (Jack) Griffiths Davies arrived in Australia wearing a bowler hat and nursing an unconcealed ambition to break […]
With the closure of the humpback whaling industry in Australia and New Zealand, alternative fishing ventures were considered in the […]
Black disease, or infectious necrotic hepatitis, is a fatal toxaemia of sheep. In 1930, it was considered to be the […]
The turn of the millennium heralded the remarkable achievement of the sequencing of the human genome. This was a major […]
CSIR's research on the sheep blowfly problem began with Ian Mackerras's appointment to the Division of Economic Entomology in 1928. […]
Beth Fulton from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research in Hobart has successfully combined a keen interest in the functioning of […]
In 1985 a team of scientists came together within CSIRO Animal Health with the aim of developing a rapid (within […]
