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Head of ESF brain drains to Singapore

After three years banging the drum for science in Europe, Bertil Andersson, CEO of the European Science Foundation (ESF), is leaving to take up the post of Rector at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

Advanced therapies back on the table

European lawmakers are set to sign off on an EU-wide law on advanced therapies. But an attempt to limit the law has sparked a last-minute lobbying drive from the industry to try to avert the exclusion of stem cell therapies.

It’s gene therapy, stupid

It is time to drop euphemisms like DNA medicines and gene-based medicines. Gene therapy, says Nuala Moran, has made it through to the commercial mainstream.