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A spin-out from Sheffield University and Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research says it has created a compound using carbon monoxide that could save lives by helping with organ transplants.

The universities of Cambridge and Manchester, Imperial College London and the SETsquared Partnership, a joint venture among four universities in southern England, have won funding to collaborate with peers in the US and with companies such as Airbus and Boeing.

British drug-delivery company Phoqus blamed "unfavourable market" conditions for meeting only its minimum target of £10 million in its initial public offering.

The University of Manchester has signed an agreement with IBM to collaborate on research, teaching and recruitment.

Celoxica, an Oxford University spin-out that makes chip design software, blamed “depressive market” conditions for the company raising less capital than it initially expected in its initial public offering

CellCentric, a biotechnology company specialising in epigenetics, is to sponsor a collaboration in cancer research at the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London.

US biotechnology firm DOR BioPharma plans to build a bigger force in gastro-intestinal medicines by buying Copenhagen-based Gastrotech Pharma, a spin-out of Gothenburg University in Sweden.

A new research centre at Imperial Collegewill study urban energy efficiency and nuclear power generation.

Shares in Oxford BioMedica, an Oxford University spin-out, fell 8.3 percent on news that the company was seeking up to £30 million to fund the Phase III trial of its a TroVax cancer immunotherapy product.

"Basic research may seem very expensive. I am a well-paid scientist. My hourly wage is equal to that of a plumber..." Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel-winning chemist

Wouldn’t you like to read the minds of the people you do business with? Sorry, fMRI doesn't do that, but it does try to see what goes on in the brain.

How to manage a virtual R&D team, valuing research – and other insights into R&D management.

A microchip that mimics the function of the human brain could one day result in a mobile phone with the memory capacity of a desktop computer, researchers report.

Swati Piramal was born into a textile business family. And as typical Indian marriages were solemnized more than two decades ago, she too married into one of the oldest textile business families in Mumbai.

Philips is seeking to boost adoption of its clock-less integrated circuit technology, offering it at a knockdown price to universities and research institutions.

Nuala’s Moran’s roundup of news and views in the management of intellectual assets focuses on how to keep alliances happy

Despite the naysayers, more and more women are gaining success in the business of science. Our global investigation shows what it takes: good education, determination, a good employer, and some luck. Memo to government – Help them out.

Adriana Vermut leads the San Francisco office for SpaceVest, a tech transfer-focused venture fund.

…It’s just a place women haven’t been before, says Pamela R. Contag, the president and co-founder of Xenogen Corporation.