22.08.2016
- Pfizer has won the race for biotech firm Medivation. The US drugs giant has agreed to pay about $14 billion in a move that adds leading prostate cancer drug Xtandi to its portfolio...
22.08.2016
- The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has cleared ChemChina’s proposed takeover of Swiss seeds giant Syngenta. Although hailed as a major step forward...
22.08.2016
- Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has inaugurated a new petrochemical complex in Alexandria for Egyptian Ethylene & Derivatives Company (Ethydco), according to local reports...
22.08.2016
- Japan’s Teijin is buying out partner DuPont in their two films joint ventures as it aims to become more flexible in a challenging business environment. The company will acquire...
22.08.2016
- Scientists from ExxonMobil and the US-based Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new process that could significantly cut the amount of energy and emissions associated...
22.08.2016
- Casebia Therapeutics, a joint venture between Bayer and CRISPR Therapeutics, has hired new laboratory and office space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, for its primary research...
19.08.2016
- US-based Merck & Co is the latest company to consider buying US biopharmaceuticals firm Medivation. Citing people familiar with the matter, news agency Reuters reported that Merck...
19.08.2016
- Tokyo-based NEC Corp has created a cellulose-based bioplastic that replicates the unique black color of Japanese high-grade lacquerware. In conjunction with the Kyoto Institute of...
