Four of the UK’s Research Councils have come together to invest £890,000 in new projects designed to rapidly build the expertise and capacity in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
On current growth rates China will overtake the US to become the world’s largest patent filing jurisdiction by 2012, according to market analysts Evalueserve.
Enabling scientists to go to work in any country in the EU is one of the key planks of the European Research Area. Now member states must be persuaded.
The French government has just announced the six first campuses to benefit from a €5 billion investment from the sale of shares in the energy company EDF. And Paris is not included.
WikiProteins, formally launched this week, is using the social network approach to bring together and annotate structural and other information in a single front end.
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