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Tracking 15 key technologies, fraud in nanotechnology - and other insights into R&D management

Nanonucleant, a spin-out of Imperial College London, is seeking angel financing to move ahead with a glass grain-based technology that aids in crystallising proteins for study as drug targets.

With an estimated 400 million people at risk for developing dementia, a natural remedy would be a welcome answer. That's the approach one British company is taking.

A team of European researchers is applying a technology used to measure airflow over aircraft wings to improve human heart implants.

After the initial hype, the long haul through clinical development and the inevitable pitfalls, gene therapy is on the verge of becoming a commercial reality in Europe - ahead of the US.

Nuala Moran takes a behind-the-scenes look at the strategies involved in Europe's biggest patent victory in years.

The University of Cambridge is considering whether to make more cash available to invest in campus spin-off companies. And whatever decision it makes will come in for criticism…

Jo Taylor, head of venture capital at 3i Group, argues that universities are too quick to hit the spin-out button.

Universities are funding more campus companies. Richard L. Hudson on the rules of a very risky game.

Reports of incubators' demise were premature

For her latest fortnightly funding column, Mary Lisbeth D'Amico set out to find European seed funders. That was as easy as finding a needle in a haystack.

Four years ago, some of Gerd Zettlmeissl’s friends thought he was crazy to leave his top job at vaccine giant Chiron to work for an Austrian spin-out company a tenth Chiron's size...

The Cambridge-based company a.gain medical says it has invented the world's first urethral sensor for women – and is looking for further investment.

UK-based AMDG's monitor for early detection of heart conditions particularly associated with diabetics is already selling in Germany. Now the company is now looking for support to enter into the US market.

A spin-out from Sheffield that uses stem cells to help with conventional drug discovery is looking for investment to continue pre-clinical research on therapeutic applications and business development activities.

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