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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.

With the end of easy oil, French oil services giant Schlumberger Clamart Technology Centre is transforming its research and development activities.

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.

It may not be possible to write a rulebook on how to innovate, but there is no harm in reading attempts to do so.

Wine and biotechnology come together in yet another genome project.

European Union has voted to continue funding embryonic stem cell research after a heated debate at the European Parliament on Tuesday.

IBM offers a few details of its new consultancy service for R&D management. Pity about the jargon.