Science|Business Reporting

The UK’s Human Genetic Commission has drawn up a set of principles for consumer gene testing that it hopes can form the basis of an international code of practice.

Edinburgh University has announced that it spun out 40 new firms last year, the most ever generated by a Scottish university in a single year.

Frank Gannon, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland, is to leave his post a year early to become Director and CEO of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.

US universities maintain their grip on the top rankings in the 2010 edition of the Shanghai index published this week, with 54 institutions in the top 100.