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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan became an Associate Member of CERN. This follows notification that Pakistan has ratified an agreement signed in December, granting that status to the country.

If successful, the project will reduce the cost of putting satellites into low Earth orbit

Facilities are in place for early stage clinical trials but most are based in universities or hospitals, and commercial scale manufacturing is yet to come on-stream

Oxitec’s technology for combatting dengue fever by releasing sterile mosquitoes into the wild will be applied to other insect-borne diseases by new owner Intrexon

The first paper describing this now world-leading class of therapeutics was published in August 1985. Since then, the UK Medical Research Council has received more than £580M in royalties

Oxford University spin-out seeks to commercialise new implosion processes in fusion reactors for electricity generation

Board announce that Andrew Blake will serve as first Institute director

But US continues to dominate in World Economic Forum’s award series; more money and bigger market ‘remain decisive’ for tech firms

EU membership is overwhelmingly positive for our institutes say university heads, as new campaign to protect £1.2B per annum of European research funding gets into gear this week

Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal tells Science|Business why it is important to bring entrepreneurial cash and the principles of open innovation to bear on one of the biggest questions in science: Are we alone?

New crowdfunding effort aims to clean up smog-choked areas

The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) will continue its mission under new leadership, with plans to increase its global standing in policy analysis and foresight

Dutch secret service say Ivan Agafonov was identified after he met a diplomat who was under surveillance in Germany

An innovative new Consortium will act as a ‘match-making’ service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers in Cambridge with the aim of developing and studying precision medicines for some of the most globally devastating diseases.

The first competition opened this week, with two more scheduled for October

The collaboration aims to enhance disease understanding and increase the pace of discovery of new therapeutics

The Imperial Incubator celebrated its spinout companies' extraordinary growth at a special 'graduation' event yesterday.

The finance-boosting InnovFin scheme expands, with the addition of three new facilities

Testers should maintain car ‘black boxes’, prepare for hackers, and ensure full ability to manually take over controls.