02.07.2013
- Onyx Pharmaceuticals, whose cancer drugs promise a strong revenue stream, is attracting preliminary buyout interest from several large pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and...
01.07.2013
- Cancer drugmaker Onyx Pharmaceuticals said on Sunday it rejected a roughly $10 billion takeover offer from larger biotechnology company Amgen as too low but still is considering...
01.07.2013
- Monsanto's unapproved, experimental genetically engineered wheat, which is feared to have potentially contaminated U.S. wheat supplies after it was found growing in an Oregon field...
01.07.2013
- European regulators have cleared the way for the first serious threat to the makers of multibillion-dollar biotechnology drugs to treat diseases such as cancer and rheumatoid...
20.06.2013
- An executive with Monsanto and two other pioneers in agricultural biotechnology said their selection as winners of the $250,000 World Food Prize on Wednesday should encourage the...
19.06.2013
- Turning around drugmaker AstraZeneca will be a long haul, with a strategy of revamping research and boosting acquisitions set to take up to four years to pay off, its chief...
15.06.2013
- The unapproved genetically modified wheat that was discovered sprouting in Oregon appears to have been "a single isolated incident," U.S. agricultural officials said on Friday in...
11.06.2013
- A former Bristol-Myers Squibb finance executive on Monday pleaded guilty to an insider trading charge, admitting to buying stock options in a biotechnology company that the...
11.06.2013
- Monsanto on Monday won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers as an appeals court threw out the growers' efforts to stop the company from suing farmers if traces...
10.06.2013
- European Union governments failed to agree on Monday whether to approve three genetically modified maize varieties for use in food and feed, the European Commission said. The...
