Science|Business Reporting

GE Healthcare launched an open call to oncology researchers and healthcare specialists, seeking ideas to improve the detection and treatment of breast cancer, as it committed to spend $1 billion on cancer R&D in the next five years

A comprehensive reform of US patents takes effect today (16 September), when the America Invents Act is made law. The changes bring the US patent system into greater conformity with the rest of the world.

Five countries have joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in pledge to create the ELIXIR system for storing public life science information

Campaigners say UK science will be £1.6 billion worse off in 2014 -2015, with inflation leading to further erosion. Cancer Research UK, Europe’s largest charitable funder of R&D has called for a new government strategy

Scientists are increasingly happy to publish in open access journals and think publicly-funded research results should be free.

The institute will carry out near-market research in batteries and power trains for electric vehicles.

There was a 44 per cent increase in researcher collaborations with industry and a 12 per cent growth in international academic partnerships in publicly-funded research in Ireland in 2010

Fourth competition sees demand for European Research Council Starting grants rise by 42 per cent

Universities, research and business organisations strongly support the EIT’s mission of driving cooperation between academics, entrepreneurs, and researchers

A UK study shows that universities in more prosperous regions are better at working with industry and commercialising their research