Science|Business Reporting

For the first time small companies will be able to use European Investment Bank (EIB) loans to help mitigate the effects of the current credit crisis.

Unilever opened a centre of excellence for Assembled Foods, a global development centre for products such as ready meals, salads, snacks and bakery goods.

Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre is to coordinate an EU project on methods for producing pharmaceutical compounds in plant cells.