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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shall be divided, with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

Sixteen of Europe’s top medical research bodies state their case for urgent reform of clinical trials regulations as they begin to prepare the ground for the parliamentary debate on rule changes, expected next year

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is looking for teams that have a broad range of skills to demonstrate a step-change in wave energy cost improvements

Research and innovation are pre-requisites of economic growth and job creation. That’s why, in addition to increasing the budget of the next Framework programme, structural funds should be earmarked for R&D and Innovation, says Maria Da Graça Carvalho, MEP

As he bows out as the founding chair of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Martin Schuurmans is happy with what has been achieved, but says it should not have taken so long

SMEs need better protection of their patent rights to prevent big companies stealing their ideas

The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training is to collaborate with GE Healthcare to develop new antibody testing technologies

An interface developed at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne already allows users to manoeuvre wheelchairs by thought transference. Now this will be applied to cars