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The WHO is looking to patent pools to prevent blocking IP and give earlier access to generics manufacturers as part of a plan to improve healthcare in developing countries.

France Angels, the country’s business angels’ network, has agreed to provide seed funding for the Microsoft start-up programme Idées.

Imperial Innovations Group is stepping up the pace of its technology commercialisation drive with a £30 million placing with existing investors.

Biotech crops may finally be breaking through to the commercial mainstream in Europe, with a 77 perc ent increase in planting between 2006 and 2007, according to data released this week.

Researchers using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and working with scientists, have become the first to elucidate the structure of a membrane protein, an important advance for drug discovery.