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GE Healthcare launched an open call to oncology researchers and healthcare specialists, seeking ideas to improve the detection and treatment of breast cancer, as it committed to spend $1 billion on cancer R&D in the next five years

A comprehensive reform of US patents takes effect today (16 September), when the America Invents Act is made law. The changes bring the US patent system into greater conformity with the rest of the world.

Deals take a notoriously long time to close in biotech. Maybe that’s why so many came to fruition in August

With plans for a new UK research and innovation strategy on the drawing board, the influential charity, Cancer Research UK, is leading a call for the government to build an “ideal environment” for research.

More than a decade after it was first mooted, the Commission is looking for new ideas for the proposed single market in research, as the deadline for its formation looms

Five countries have joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in pledge to create the ELIXIR system for storing public life science information

Campaigners say UK science will be £1.6 billion worse off in 2014 -2015, with inflation leading to further erosion. Cancer Research UK, Europe’s largest charitable funder of R&D has called for a new government strategy

£2M hydrogen project to improve the design, safety, and operation of future systems