Business news – Page 96
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Business
Takeda buys Envoy for $140m
The small US biotech will boost Takeda’s drug discovery efforts
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Business
Approval for first gene therapy drug
Glybera (alipogene tiparvovec) injections have been approved in Europe
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Business
Panel delivers final PFOA report
Probable link between perfluorooctanoic acid, used by DuPont to make fluoro-polymers, and high cholesterol
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Business
Novartis biotech plant for Singapore
Firm will invest $500 million in biotech manafacturing
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Opinion
High finance meets big pharma?
Derek Lowe examines an alternative funding model for pharmaceutical research
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BusinessChemists contribute to prior art hunt
A crowdsourcing website that pays for prior art is gaining popularity – can chemists make money?
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Business
More jobs go: Lonza cuts 500
A bid to ‘secure the future’ of the site at Visp in Switzerland
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Business
Patent woes lead to sharp sales losses
Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly have all suffered loss of exclusivity for key drugs
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Business
Problems for Russian chemicals?
Accession to WTO will force government to ditch badly needed subsidies
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Business
Bankruptcy for US Li ion battery maker
Johnson Controls to buy the automotive business of A123 Systems for $125 million
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Business
Pfizer to pay $700m for Ritalin re-formulated
Pfizer to buy a company with a liquid formulation of historic ADHD drug methylphenidate
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Business
$2.2bn speciality chemicals acquisition
Family-owned US speciality chemical company Champion Technologies is to be bought by Ecolab
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Business
Carbon dioxide to chemical partnership
Petronas to partner with gas fermentation specialist LanzaTech
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BusinessSlump in confidence hits EU chemical industry
Latest figures show that production for the first seven months of this year will be down 2.4% on the same time last year
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Business
Bayer and Evotec team up on endometriosis
German collaboration aims to develop three drug candidates in five years