Science|Business Reporting

The pan-European biotech industry association has called for an end to the ten-year ban on genetically modified crop approvals.

The UK Technology Strategy Board is going halves with industry on projects that aim to capture difficult or complex environments such as on the sea bed.

The Wellcome Trust has put £5 million into a new scheme to enable clinicians to do academic research alongside care of patients.

The European Security and Research Innovation Forum presented its interim agenda for a single programme of research to improve security while protecting civil rights and creating single market for security products.

The US and European patent offices have launched a trial of the Patent Prosecution Highway, a scheme they say will speed up the granting of patents.