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The European Research Council has announced the winners in the physical and social sciences categories of its first €517 million round of Advanced Grants.

The UK Medical Research Council is about to begin a survey of scientists it funds, with the aim of demonstrating the value of the research.

Three European cancer centres are joining forces to develop and implement innovative treatments and reduce treatment related side effects.

After the genome, the proteome, the metabolome and the transcriptome, lipids are the next entities to be subject to minute, whole-organism analysis.

A new report from Nesta shows that private money now accounts for only 43 per cent of early stage investments in the UK, leaving public funds to prop up innovation.

Financial incentives have attracted the Max Planck Society and an MIT lab to Florida. But can clusters be built on money alone?