Business news – Page 57
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BusinessA match made in medicine
Technology companies have begun to turn their resources towards health research. Is it just hype or can big tech bring something new?
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NewsMOFs offer safer toxic gas storage
Start-up’s gas cylinders allows sub-atmospheric storage of hazardous gases like arsine used in semiconductor processing
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BusinessCorn growers’ lawsuit contested by Syngenta
Syngenta opposes class action seeking over $5bn in damages related to its genetically engineered corn
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BusinessBoost for carbon capture projects in India, Norway and Australia
New projects unveiled, as UK carbon capture policy is criticised
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BusinessSC Johnson revisits its use of galaxolide
Concerns of environmental and health groups leads firm to review scientific data on the fragrance chemical
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FeatureSmarter smells
After years of research, the flavour and fragrance industry is increasingly turning to biotechnology for commercial production, as Emma Davies reports
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BusinessAstraZeneca sheds multiple drugs
Spate of licensing deals for non-core products as firm further tightens R&D focus
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NewsPfizer launches new biosimilar drug in US
Autoimmune disease treatment becomes only the second biosimilar to be approved by the FDA
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BusinessThird fatality confirmed in BASF incident
Crackers and related plants will restart over coming days
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PodcastGabapentin
Louise Crane documents the rise and fall of Gabapentin – from ‘wonder drug’ to illicit substance in just 50 years
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NewsWax pills for safe and simple olefin metathesis hit the market
Capsules preserve air-sensitive chemicals and forego need for glove boxes
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BusinessExplosion at BASF kills at least two
Six workers injured and a further two missing in Ludwigshafen, Germany
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BusinessTroubled Theranos abandons clinical testing
Seeking to salvage some value, once-admired blood analysis firm lays off 40% of staff
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BusinessNovartis consolidates research sites
Company will close research sites in China and Switzerland, and relocate another from Singapore to US
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BusinessChemical activity on demand
Aqdot controls the release of encapsulated cargoes using supramolecular chemistry
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BusinessIndia’s Intas bags UK and Irish generics
Teva sheds former Actavis business to satisfy competition requirements of its Allergan generics takeover
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BusinessPfizer to sell Hospira Infusion Systems to ICU Medical
$1bn deal brings together medical device units, as Pfizer focuses on Hospira’s biosimilars and generics
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BusinessLilly to buy Boehringer’s pet vaccines
Deal strengthens Lilly’s animal medicine division following recent acquisition
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FeatureIonic liquids revisted
Ionic liquids have flowed far and wide since they first bubbled to the surface in the late 1990s. Michael Freemantle reports
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BusinessWest Virginia chemical leak was preventable
2014 spill that contaminated water supplies was caused by lack of proper tank inspections and repairs