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Cambridge to get new biomedical campus

Planning permission has been granted for the development of 70 acres of land next to Addenbrooke’s Hospital on the southern fringe of Cambridge to provide 2.3 million sq ft of biomedical research and development facilities.

Innovation: It takes a village

Director Leon Sandler talks about how MIT’s Deshpande Center is attracting a combination of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and managers to jump start new ideas in science and technology.

EU/US breakthrough in protein structure

Researchers using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and working with scientists, have become the first to elucidate the structure of a membrane protein, an important advance for drug discovery.

Valuing intellectual property

It's been tough to actually put a price on patents. Will reform of the US patent rules make it easier to capitalise on intellectual property?