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.

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The development agency Scottish Enterprise is teaming up with one of the US’s leading life science property specialists to develop Edinburgh BioQuarter.