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The controversy over embryonic stem cell research will not dissipate until the technology proves itself in the clinic. Now the regulators have to move, say Science|Business’s Nuala Moran.

Basic science remains of central importance, John Denham, UK Secretary of State for Innovation reassured the UK’s leading scientists in a speech last month.

Five of the UK’s major funders of animal research will make compliance with their guidelines a condition of funding for new grants involving the use of animals.

The UK government has announced the members of a board set up to provide it with strategic advice on intellectual property issues.

UK pharmaceutical companies last year supported has nearly 14 per cent fewer PhD studentships and almost 25 per cent fewer postdoctoral grants than in 2003.