The Paediatric Regulation has “basically forced” companies to tailor drugs for use by children, but more work is needed to plug gaps in the area of childhood rare diseases
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
Plan for the last three years of the EU R&D programme sees a tighter focus, more funding for research on security and migration, money for foreign researchers and a pledge to do more to help poorer member states develop their science base
‘Focus areas’, ‘lump-sum’ payments and studies into migration, extremism and blockchain among novelties in 3-year plan. But who will run ‘Agency for Disruptive Innovation?’
The Swiss university has launched an investigation into ‘inept management’ of graduate students by a female professor. The university has closed the astronomy institute where it happened
The three-year Swiss-EU dispute over immigration should not leave ‘any doubt’ that EU will make no concessions to UK in Brexit talks, says ERC Council member, Athene Donald
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