Science|Business Reporting

The 68,000 members of the European Society of Cardiology want a single, co-ordinated and rigorous system to oversee the evaluation of medical devices

78 renewable energy and carbon capture and storage projects have been submitted by member states for EU funding in the world’s largest demonstration of clean energy

The $3.8 billion the US put into the international effort to sequence the first human genome has delivered $796 billion back to the economy and created 310,000 jobs, says a new study

Manchester University is to host the “pre-competitive” centre, specialising in inflammatory diseases

The European University Association is calling for higher education, research and innovation to be priorities for EU funding in the next budget cycle from 2013

Nobel prize-winning economist James Heckman of the University of Chicago, has been awarded a €2.51 million five year grant by the European Research Council (ERC)

A new study of the distribution of innovative companies in the UK has huge implications for how innovation policies across Europe are focussed to maximise economic growth and job creation

The Drug Discovery Unit at Dundee is to spearhead the development of a national network to allow researchers to work together in fragment-based drug design

ICT has the technology and applications on hand to improve the efficiency of Europe’s healthcare systems. An EU task force charged with speeding these capabilities through to the bedside gets down to work this week