The California Supreme Court on 2 February reopened a legal battle between the City of Hope hospital in Duarte, California, and San Francisco-based…
The Munich-based European Patent Office (EPO), at the end of January,dealt fresh blows to Myriad Genetics’ controversial monopoly on diagnostic…
A leading investment advisor to the British government is due to publish a report, this month, on whether the UK should relax its rules on…
Top managers in the biggest biotechnology companies collected bonuses in 2003 52% higher than the year before, resulting in their paycheck increasing…
For the first time since 1995, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has added a woman to the short list of female winners of the Nobel…
Edible vaccines, produced in genetically modified crops, promise cheap and effective protection against infectious diseases in the developing…
Cash awards have persuaded 25 promising scientists to settle in Europe, but there still remain other barriers to fostering bioentrepreneurs…
Europe’s projects are fragmented and ineffective, researchers say. Europe is squandering scant research funds available for AIDS vaccine…
In a move that has angered AIDS researchers worldwide, the US government has slashed its contribution to the 15th International AIDS Conference,…
New members of the expanded European Union (EU) could boost the profile of biomedical research in the region by providing fertile breeding ground…