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A new journal might be worth watching, if you don't mind tearing down barriers between disciplines.

Researchers are taking cues from a century-old spray drying technology to see if it could be developed to make better products for the food and pharmaceutical industries. They are now looking for investors and partnership from industry players.

Big money is going into Europe's nanotechnology. This one has an interesting partnership between research and industry.

The inventors of an imaging system to improve diagnosis of coronary heart disease are looking at licensing the technology – or getting venture capital to create a spin-out.

A researcher at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam has developed instruments that could assist surgeons to perform keyhole surgery. The centre is now looking for investors and partnership or licensing agreements for the technology.

Cognitive science is moving rapidly from theory to research to practical applications.

Things have changed in intellectual property, the biotech industry's big annual get-together in the US has been hearing from India, Malaysia and others.

The European Union's plan to transform Europe's drug discovery industry borrows some of its style from the US - but not everything.

The European biotechnology sector is back on track, according to Ernst & Young's 20th annual survey of biotechnology.

A University of Plymouth graduate has invented a machine that combines washing, drying and ironing functions with the touch of a button, and he is now looking for investment of up to £5 million to refine the product for the general household use.