Business

• Icelandic genomics firm goes bankrupt

  deCODE's demise leaves fate of its valuable genetic database unclear.

  23 November 2009

• Gene silencing predicted to improve drug manufacturing - Premium content

  Biotech firm hopes to use RNA interference to boost drug yields.

  19 November 2009

• South Korean R&D budget to soar - Premium content

  Materials science and green technology should win large funding increases.

  19 November 2009

• Gene-makers form security coalition - Premium content

  Latest salvo in the gene-synthesis 'standards war' sees firms set up a competing code.

  18 November 2009

• Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature - Premium content

  Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems — but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelist.

  18 November 2009

• Japanese science faces deep cuts - Premium content

  The government's election promises vowed more support for science, but so far budgets look set to shrink.

  17 November 2009

• Fresh hope for German stem-cell patent case - Premium content

  Referral to European Court may help to harmonize laws on intellectual property.

  16 November 2009

• China moves to help high-tech firms - Premium content

  But initiatives meet with mixed response.

  10 November 2009

• End of the road for Copenhagen? - Premium content

  Expectations are dropping as December's UN climate talks get closer.

  10 November 2009

• The dog cloner - Premium content

  Woo Suk Hwang's former collaborator emerges from the shadow of scandal.

  10 November 2009