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President Obama’s $814B stimulus plan was the bone of contention in this week’s mid-term elections. So has the extra spending on science delivered or not?

Estonia is using Structural Funds, Framework grants and international collaboration to build its science base and drive innovation.

The 1000 Genomes Project has published a map estimated to contain approximately 95 per cent of the genetic variation of any person on Earth.

The USPTO and the EPO have agreed to jointly develop a patent classification system on the basis of the European Classification system, ECLA.

Ten leading organisations from the UK higher education and research sector have joined forces to push for Open Access to research papers.

The final stage of an international project to discover the function of every gene in the mouse genome has got underway, while moves are in hand to open up the findings of the project.