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Science is about to get back into Washington’s good books – and not before time, says Science|Business’s Nuala Moran.

The prospect of a sub-$1,000 human genome sequence moved closer as Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd agreed a marketing deal with Illumina Inc for its low-cost sequencing technology.

A pan-European project to develop standards for the collection of samples for use in diagnostics has been launched as part of Framework Programme 7. The project aims to increase accuracy and safety, and to create a single market for diagnostics products.

Scotland’s flagship life sciences project, Edinburgh BioQuarter, has been awarded £12 million by the development agency Scottish Enterprise and Edinburgh University to set up a technology commercialisation fund.

The fur on the Celtic Tiger is getting extremely ruffled, but despite being the first country in the eurozone to go into recession, the Republic of Ireland continued to attract significant inward investment in 2008,