WikiProteins, formally launched this week, is using the social network approach to bring together and annotate structural and other information in a single front end.

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 government has set up a new strategy board to promoting the country’s expertise in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and healthcare.

Scotland launched the latest version of its strategy to become one of world’s top locations for life sciences by 2020, as the hopes vested in two of its leading research companies Stem Cell Sciences and Ardana Biosciences, turned to dust.

What price excellence? Qatar’s Sidra Medical and Research Centre has $7.9 billion to build a world class institution. But is money enough to bridge the gap?