Nuala Moran

The UK budget last week set out measures to extract more value, improve quality and increase innovation from the billions the government spends on science. Nuala Moran looks into the small print.

Microsoft has stepped up its courtship of the international research community with the publication of an investigation of how computer science will underpin scientific discovery in the next 15 years.

Six volunteers are in intensive care after a U.K. trial of an antibody treatment for leukaemia went horribly wrong, raising a raft of questions about drug testing.

Battle lines are drawn in an expensive, distracting and unedifying legal fight between two vaccine manufacturers. Nuala Moran investigates.

Scientists at Innsbruck Medical University have performed a great service to mankind by demonstrating that beer has important health-promoting properties.

Scientists at the University of Aston in the UK believe they have achieved the Holy Grail of telecommunications – the lossless transmission of data over optical fibres.

Philips Research has developed a woodstove for cooking in rural communities in developing countries – and is looking for partners to bring this technology to the market.

What do patent statistics tell you about innovation? It depends how you count them, says the OECD. Nuala Moran investigates.

25.7%. The annual rate of increase in patent applications by foreign companies in China, 1991 to 2001

Helping UK universities turn their ideas into business has turned into a business of its own – with four IP management companies quoted on London’s Alternative Investment Market.