11.03.2015
- Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical business of Germany's Merck KGaA, and US biotechnology company Illumina, based at San Diego, California, plan to collaborate on expanding the...
01.02.2015
- A jury in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has issued a verdict favouring DuPont in a whistleblower suit alleging leaks of cancer-causing gas at the company's sulfuric acid plant in Burnside...
23.01.2015
- Chemicals "known to be carcinogens," such as benzene and formaldehyde, being used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas in South Africa's Karoo basin, could lead to an...
16.09.2014
- Roche's cancer drug Avastin as a cheaper treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD), a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, does not appear to increase deaths...
12.09.2014
- Calico, an investment firm founded by Google to fund projects aimed at delaying the human aging process, is partnering with US drugmaker AbbVie to develop therapies for age-related...
13.06.2014
- Germany's Merck and compatriot biotech firm MorphoSys have agreed to cooperate on discovering and developing therapeutic antibodies against undisclosed immune checkpoints, that is...
05.06.2014
- Adaptimmune, a biotechnology company developing TCR engineered T-cells to treat cancer, has begun a strategic collaboration and licensing agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for...
25.04.2014
- AstraZeneca has unveiled plans to sell or partner infection and neuroscience units with combined 2013 sales of $3.5 billion and a basis in antibiotics and antipsychotics as well as...
