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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.

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.

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.

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