Science|Business Reporting

The company that produces BlackBerry handhelds is to open an R&D facility on the campus of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

The Transport Research Knowledge Centre has relaunched its web portal, making it easier to access results of EU or nationally financed transport research.

Innogenetics NV has settled its patent dispute with the US pharma giant Abbott over hepatitis C genotyping technology.

The European Society of Human Genetics wants to ban the patenting of genes and DNA sequences but allow patents on genetic tests.