Life sciences

Cost conundrum: the investment in clinical trials remains the same but approved drugs will have a smaller market. So how is Personalised Medicine to be financed?

The European Commission has announced the results of an €18 million call for proposals for new research projects in flu.

Producing pluripotent stem cells from skin is valuable, but they can’t replace stem cells from embryos, say US scientists.

Nathalie Moll has been appointed Secretary General of the trade association EuropaBio, and will succeed Willy de Greef on 1 April.

Sanofi-aventis has signed a research partnership with AVIESAN, the French Life Sciences and Healthcare Alliance.