Leading researchers seeking to stave off modern plagues are making progress in understanding the mechanisms of diseases such as influenza and anthrax.

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.

Scotland is investing £9.5 million of public money in the Swedish stem cell company Cellartis AB to fund an R&D and manufacturing facility in Dundee.