14.03.2013
- Lonza Walkersville and Hyglos, a German biotech company, announced today that they have reached a mutually beneficial global settlement which includes a license agreement for...
08.03.2013
- China has delayed the introduction of genetically-modified rice and corn as it tries to head off public fears, leading government scientists said on Thursday. The world's largest...
08.03.2013
- Merck & Co will bring back one of its veterans to head research and development, replacing retiring Peter Kim, who leaves behind a mixed record over the past decade at the...
07.03.2013
- Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, announces today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bird Engineering, the Netherlands. The acquisition will include the intellectual...
05.03.2013
- Roche's influential Chairman Franz Humer said on Tuesday he will not stand for re-election next year when he will have served 16 years at the helm, potentially accelerating a shift...
27.02.2013
- The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier on Wednesday to bring class action lawsuits, breaking a line of rulings that had made it more difficult to sue corporate defendants...
26.02.2013
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it has stopped all pediatric clinical trials of Amgen's Sensipar after the death of a 14-year-old patient taking part in a...
26.02.2013
- Dendreon reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss versus a year-ago profit on Monday as revenue fell and restructuring costs weighed on the biotechnology company. Executives...
23.02.2013
- U.S. farmers are clamoring for more drought-hardy corn seeds as the spring planting season nears and soils remain parched across large swaths of key growing areas, the head of one...
20.02.2013
- The National Institutes of Health Center for Regenerative Medicine (NIH CRM) has awarded Lonza Walkersville a contract to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for...
