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Milken Institute, a California-based think-tank founded by famous financier Michael Milken, published earlier this week a report on global trends in university biotechnology transfer. This is an impressive piece of work, carried out by a research team of nine and drawing on every conceivable source of data.

An international partnership has started to build a large-scale public infrastructure for sharing research information across Europe.

Germany is poised to begin the great sell-off of its university hospitals. What will this mean for the research and development they carry out?

Just over half of Europe’s scientifically qualified work force is female, but fewer than one in three of Europe’s professional scientists and technologists are women...

A transatlantic collaboration that will systematically uncover the function of human genes and make the findings public got under way earlier this month.

US institutions are dominant in a survey of bio tech transfer published by the Miliken Foundation covering publications, patenting and tech transfer outcomes.

A new study shows that universities in the USA still rule the roost when it comes to biotech research, not to mention turning it into cash.

The EU backed Innovative Medicines Initiative has updated its strategic research agenda, outlining strategies to overcome 'bottlenecks' to efficient R&D for new medicines.