After the devastation wrought by a veterinary drug on Asian vulture populations, a project hopes to begin releasing captive-bred birds into the wild by 2016.

BBC TV presenter Dr Michael Mosley has infected himself with a series of parasites in an effort to understand how they affect the human body.

The next round of the EU research budget, Horizon 2020, will be worth nearly £67bn (80bn euros) over the next seven years.