RegGenome, a commercial spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round.

The project will use machine learning to sequence the world’s regulatory text and create an open-source repository of machine-readable regulatory information. 

As the UK prepares to leave the EU, trade regimes are being reconfigured. Research into 19th-century trade regulations by Carolyn Cobbold, historian of science, shows that scientific claims play a significant role in shaping international trade. She urges us to heed the lessons of the past.

Far from stamping it out, too much regulation actually encourages corruption, argues Dr Stelios Zyglidopoulos, Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School and Reader in Management at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. So what’s the solution?

On the anniversary of the collapse of Bangladeshi garment factory Rana Plaza, in which 1,129 people died, Dr Kamal Munir says the West needs to re-think its addiction to cheap clothing – and the East its attitude to regulation.

Leading plant scientists have called for major changes to the way GM crops are licensed.

Research from Cambridge Judge Business School has been instrumental in developing a new system of energy market regulation

The author of the report which laid the basis for British and international corporate governance codes will be the guest speaker at a conference which asks what the future of such measures should be.