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Ireland’s largest-ever healthcare venture capital fund is making its optimistic debut as one of the UK’s longest-standing VC supporters of high tech start-ups calls it quits. So what’s happening?

The UK Technology Strategy Board has published its three-year strategic plan and outlined how it will promote and invest in technology-driven innovation.

Five of the UK’s major funders of animal research will make compliance with their guidelines a condition of funding for new grants involving the use of animals.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation to inform a move to modernise and simplify the legislation on medical devices.

Europe’s politicians claim they are inching towards the Community Patent. But translation is still an issue and a single litigation area remains a distant hope.

Basic science remains of central importance, John Denham, UK Secretary of State for Innovation reassured the UK’s leading scientists in a speech last month.

Shares in drug company MediGene have risen sharply following rumours that Pfizer is eyeing the German spin-out as a takeover target.