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A $100 million research effort by IBM to build a ‘petaflop’ computer 500 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputer is being hailed by biologists as likely to herald a paradigm shift in our understanding of cellular biology.
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled last week that the patent for the natural occurring form of the widely used reagent taq DNA polymerase was fraudulently obtained and has ruled it invalid.
The Indian government is proposing a patent law on new crop varieties under which patent applications can be rejected for varieties whose commercial exploitation may be injurious to health.
The US National Institutes of Health could provide funding for research on human embryonic stems as early as spring if new guidelines are formally approved.
Columbia University in New York is poised to extend for a further 10 years its management agreement for the controversial Biosphere 2 Center in Arizona.
Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia achieved the highest success rate of 11 countries seeking European Union membership in funding applications to the Framework Five Programme.
