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The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1,500 Fellows are the cream of experts in the sciences, arts, humanities, professions, industry and commerce. This March it announced the election of 48 new UK and International Fellows elected after a rigorous four-stage selection process culminating in a ballot of the entire Fellowship. Each new Fellow of the RSE is recognised within his or her peer group as having achieved excellence within their discipline or profession.

Buses equipped with computers make interesting sense. Cisco, for one, exhibiting its unique Network On Wheels (NOW) Van at the New Start Scotland exhibition next Friday and Saturday at the SECC, Glasgow, sees this as moving hightech into the known element everyday of transport mobility. In the US a similar approach has been made by equipping the school bus with the Internet turning rowdy schoolchildren into quieter and either attentive students or dedicated gamers.

In January this year, three-year-old Burntisland, Fife-based Burdica Biomed Ltd (BBL) signed a long-term partnership agreement with China giant, Sinopharm which has contracted to undertake the Chinese regulatory compliance process for products from the Burdica portfolio (expected to take a year or so to completion) and subsequently distribute the products in China, with Burdica marketing support.

On the heels of the new mathematical model for leukaemia,Vienna University research work shows how leukaemia cells become ‘addicted’ to genes, which if targeted could prevent diseased cells from developing. The team, led by Dr Veronika Sexl from the University of Vienna, carried out their research on acute lymphoid leukaemia (ALL) and chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML), which can both be caused by fusion protein, Bcr-Abl, created through the joining of two or more genes originally coded for separate proteins.

CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between particles with the highest energy ever generated and performed at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator and recorded with the CMS Experiment, which involved a key component (the barrel pixel detector) contributed by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with Swiss Universities.

Ensus has just announced the first tanker of its sustainably produced bioethanol has been despatched from Europe’s largest new £250m wheat biorefinery on Teesside, which recently started production, and been sold to Shell as part of a long term deal, and helping Britain cut carbon emissions from road transport to meet its renewable fuel obligations from UK sources The plant will also produce 350,000 tonnes a year of high protein animal feed, which will replace imports. But a quick analysis of the 28 organisations that will contribute and research Designing Next Generation Bio-Refinery, shows who intends long term to rank high in this market, who will observe and who will stay out.

A Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) workshop “New Languages & Future Technology Prototype” was held this week at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Munich, Germany for people actively involved in the assessment of prototypes, and programming languages and HPC research activities.

A London-based market research company focused on telecommunications, pharmaceuticals. and defence, states that the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defence market was worth a total $7.9bn in 2009 and it expect to to see significant sales growth in the global market place. It's a market place that Scottish based manufacturing can supply.

With a May deadline, the G8 Heads of Research Councils (G8 HORCs) have started the first multilateral call for proposals which addresses exascale computing, the fastest supercomputers of the next generation inviting researchers from the G8 nations can jointly initiate research projects and obtain the necessary funding within the scope of a new funding initiative. Researchers from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA are eligible to apply, under the leadership of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)

Research has identified of a plant protein responsible for optimising light absorption during the photosynthetic process, adapting the photosynthetic apparatus to changes in environmental light conditions. It could have an important impact not only on improved plant productivity but on solar radiation absorption technologies.

Edinburgh-based Aquamarine Power which has raised $60m in several tranches for its wave energy power plants.and its joint venture with utility partners such as Scottish & Southern Energy will create pull-through sales for the Oyster, opening the door to an estimated $190bn global market has been exhibiting in California.

Powerful software is one of the factors that sets Avtech apart from competition according to Michael Sigourney, senior product specialist of a company whose main offerings are TemPageR (temperature monitor) and Room Alert (critical environment monitors) products, which let IT admins monitor environmental conditions such as temperature, power failures, flooding, smoke, and fire.

Acinetobacter baumannii, or a gram negative bacteria have a cell structure that makes them more difficult to attack with antibiotics than gram positive infections such as the notorious MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), and came to the limelight some years ago in infections of soldiers wounded in Iraq. It looks to be a growing market world-wide.

A new Joint Research Centre lead-authored report on transmission network planning highlights that a radical change in coordinated network planning and operation is needed to accommodate market liberalisation and the increasing integration of renewable power sources. The key issues to obtain a reliable and effective European grid are integrated strategic planning and cross-border coordination as underlined by the European Union's Strategic Energy Technology Plan Information System (SETIS) led by the (JRC).

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