Technology transfer

Obesity has been promoted from lifestyle issue to global health problem. But can fatness be cured? A new drug may be a turning point.

It's better to have fewer, stronger, spin-offs than shoals of tiddlers, as Marina Murphy discovers.

The EU's attempt to reduce the amount of animal testing became more concrete last week with the publication of an action programme.

The UK government has announced the formation of two further Enterprise Capital Funds, one more than it intended to set up in the first phase of the programme.

Carlos Moreira, co-founder and chairman of Swiss data-encryption firm WISekey, talks to Science|Business editor Richard L. Hudson on the travails of entrepreneurship.

Novartis’s move to take over UK biotech NeuTec Pharma at a large premium highlights how the so-called “superbugs” have reinvigorated pharma’s interest in antibiotics.

York University's Centre for Novel Agricultural Products has won a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete research into an antimalarial plant.

Funds should start flowing at the start of 2007 in the €50 billion Framework Programme 7 after the European Parliament approved the budget.

Economic disparity across Europe's regions can be linked directly to investment in research and development and adoption of information technologies, says an official report.

The Cambridge-MIT Institute has spun out its Communications Research Network project as a company to step up the pace of innovation in communications.