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Drugmakers, Academics Pool R&D in $265 Million EU Project

07.02.2013 - Seven European drugmakers are to pool their research efforts with academic scientists and smaller companies in a new €196 million ($265 million) project designed to find tomorrow's...

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U.S. Shale Gas Revolution Throws Down the Gauntlet to Europe

04.02.2013 - The United States is enjoying an energy bonanza thanks to shale gas, making it a magnet for industry, reducing import dependence and challenging Europe as it battles to dig itself...

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A Numbers Game

29.01.2013 - The Final Score - Revenues, profits, assets, liabilities, cash flow - looking after your financial statements is sometimes sport, sometimes science and sometimes plain arithmetic...

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Canadian Crude Reaches Europe as U.S. Shale Oil Booms

22.01.2013 - The United States now gets so much crude from its own shale deposits that Canadian exporters are selling as far afield as Europe, showing how deeply the U.S. energy revolution is...

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Syngenta, Bayer Pesticides Pose Honeybee Threat

17.01.2013 - Three widely-used pesticides made by Switzerland's Syngenta and Germany's Bayer pose an acute risk to honeybees, the European Union's food safety watchdog said on Wednesday, but...

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EU Agency Rejects Sanofi, Isis Cholesterol Drug

18.12.2012 - European regulators recommended against approval of Sanofi and Isis Pharmaceutical's Kynamro drug for treatment of a rare genetic disorder that causes unusually high cholesterol...

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Britain Lifts Shale Gas Ban, Imposes Tighter Rules

13.12.2012 - Britain lifted its ban on shale gas exploration on Thursday as it aims to become a European leader in a sector that has transformed the U.S. energy market and counter a fall in the...

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Coolant Safety Row Puts the Heat on Europe's Carmakers

12.12.2012 - When engineers at Mercedes-Benz tasked with field-testing a revolutionary new refrigerant watched it ignite in a ball of fire before their eyes, it took a while for the...