30.11.2012
- Drugmakers racing to develop medicines and vaccines to combat a germ that ravages the gut and kills thousands have a new challenger: the human stool. For patients hit hardest by...
26.11.2012
- Prof. Stefan Buchholz (50) has assumed the position as head of Creavis, the strategic R&D unit of Evonik. Buchholz studied chemistry in Marburg, Germany and received his doctorate...
26.11.2012
- An experimental vaccine based on a molecule related to DNA protects animals against influenza and may one day offer an ultra-rapid way to develop new shots for humans, German...
16.11.2012
- Doctors are increasingly having to turn to last-ditch antibiotics due to growing drug-resistant superbug infections in Europe, EU health officials said on Friday. The problem is...
16.11.2012
- When Sanofi boss Chris Viehbacher first met staff at Genzyme, the U.S. biotech he had just acquired after a long takeover battle, he told them he did not want "planeloads of people...
08.11.2012
- BASF is constructing a new laboratory building that will combine research scientists from several specialties under one roof. The building is being created close to Gate 7 in the...
31.10.2012
- The chemical company BASF today opened its global mining research and development center at the Australian Minerals Research Centre (AMRC) in Perth, WA. At the new facility, BASF...
31.10.2012
- British academic researchers have secured 7 million pounds ($11 million) of funding from the country's Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate a range of potential new drugs...