The Department of Microsystems Engineering at Freiburg University has kicked off an ambitious project to enable the handling, culture and analysis of live cells.
The European Medicines Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have extended the confidentiality arrangements under which they share information.
The European Commission has set out moves to encourage private and public investment in broadband networks to deliver speeds of 30 megabits per second by 2013.
EU researchers are to get sustainable and continuous access to the combined processing power of over 200,000 desktop computers in more than 30 European countries.
Europe needs to stop talking and take action on setting up a global system for governance of the internet, says Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission.
Excellence - not geography - should determine where Europe spends its research budget, Greek MEP and professor Ioannis Tsouklas tells Science|Business.
Norway’s Centres of Excellence scheme wins praise for increasing recruitment, promoting international collaboration, and national and interdisciplinary cooperation.
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