UK

Report into WannaCry cyberattack points to vulnerabilities in UK health system

The WannaCry hack was relatively unsophisticated and could have been prevented with basic IT security best practice. There are greater cyber threats out there and the NHS must ensure it is better protected

06 Nov 2017

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Digital health

Wellcome Trust investment in health research to top £1B for first time in 2018

20 Sep 2017

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Wellcome Trust

UK science committee chair calls for more women MPs nominees

Ex-MEP Vicky Ford joins UK Parliament science committee following storm over all-male line-up

14 Sep 2017

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Science policy

Will China take the lead in carbon capture and storage technologies?

With most of Europe’s demonstration projects on hold, it may come down to others to pioneer commercial use of carbon capture and storage and bring costs down, says Ronald Oxburgh, member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology

02 May 2012

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Carbon capture

Huge boost to UK university spin-outs as £150M private fund is launched

A private equity firm is to raise the largest specialist fund in the world dedicated to commercialising university R&D. The money will be invested in partnership with three of the UK’s leading research universities

16 Feb 2012

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Technology Transfer

Cut agriculture for the sake of science

The UK may have used its veto on treaty change, but it will support increased spending on R&D from 2014 – 2020, as proposed in Horizon 2020. Cutting agriculture subsidies could pay for this, Business Minister Vince Cable tells Science|Business

15 Dec 2011

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