Science|Business Reporting

Four of the UK’s Research Councils have come together to invest £890,000 in new projects designed to rapidly build the expertise and capacity in the emerging field of synthetic biology.

The Commission will not object to France fudning a programme on personal management of multimedia data for the internet and mobile telephony.

Research institutions and companies in Estonia can now apply for national support in preparing projects and submitting bids for EU-funded research programmes, including reimbursement of VAT costs.

The European Patent Office has launched a €16 million plan to try to ensure that the intellectual property rights newly enshrined in China are upheld.

WikiProteins, formally launched this week, is using the social network approach to bring together and annotate structural and other information in a single front end.