The drug development start-up TPP Global Development has agreed its first deal, in which it will collaborate with Edinburgh University to carry out preclinical development.

This month sees the opening of the new Kosterlitz Centre for Therapeutics at Aberdeen University, which will provide specialist skills for applying and commercialising medical research.

The UK Intellectual Property Office has kicked off a year long research programme into intellectual property and its value to the economy.

The UK government has set out how it will license the storage of carbon dioxide under the sea bed, following responses to its recent consultation.