Thermo Scientific, a US-based healthcare equipment provider, has announced that its SureTect Listeria species Assay has received Performance Tested Methods status from the AOAC Research Institute. Listeria species can be commonly found in ...
The latest ICAC survey on the cost of cotton production indicates that weed control is becoming increasingly expensive. Weed control costs include manual/mechanical weeding, thinning (also supplement weeding), hoeing and herbicide use. ...
Tags: Cotton Farming, Textile
Expenditures on insect control in cotton are essentially unchanged at about 16 or 17 cents per kilogram of cotton over the last decade, despite inflation in chemical prices. However, as a percent of total production costs, insecticides are ...
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Specialty life-science investment company Torrey Pines Investment (TPI) has signed a multi-million dollar joint investment framework agreement with BioMotiv, a biotech accelerator associated with The Harrington Project for Discovery & ...
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US-based fulfillment services provider OctoChem has expanded its Midwest specialty distribution plant in Vandalia as a result of various industries addressing a growing need to handle the packaging and distribution of product samples ...
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KU Leuven and FIT Biotech have reached a global license and partnership agreement for the development of novel immunotherapeutics leveraging FIT Biotech's gene transport unit (GTU) technology for transient in vivo expression of monoclonal ...
Brad Kelley, the farm boy with 1 million acres Farmer guilty of defending family with shotgun The farmland gold rush may be cooling, but the fields of agriculture remain wide open to investment. Venture capitalists, DIYers, and a new ...
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For the first time, SCHOTT Pharmaceutical Systems will be exhibiting at Interphex Japan as an expert on high-quality pharmaceutical tubing. With around 1,000 exhibitors, Interphex is one of the biggest trade shows worldwide for the ...
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Sheffield based independent research, test and design specialist, Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS), has completed a £500K investment programme to meet increasing demand throughout the glass supply chain. The two-year programme ...
HistoGenetics, a New York-based biotech firm specialized in Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing services and Sequenced-Based Typing (SBT), has selected Illumina's MiSeq sequencing system for use in its CLIA laboratory. Illumina's MiSeq ...
Roselabs Bioscience, a manufacturer of pre-filled syringes (PFS) based in Ahmedabad, India, is holding negotiations for supply arrangements with a few pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Dr Reddy's Laboratories. The PFS ...
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The US FDA has approved Janssen Biotech's Simponi ARIA (golimumab) for infusion to treat moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Simponi ARIA is the only fully-human anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha infusible ...
Viennese biotech company Marinomed Biotechnologie has licensed the rights of five drugs to a global pharmaceutical firm for the Chinese market. The drugs include three antiviral nasal sprays against common cold, influenza and colds in ...
Design Museum is collaborating with the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to deliver a major new exhibition about the sweeping changes in manufacturing that are transforming our world. New manufacturing ...
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8 Companies join forces with the European Commission to set up a Public-Private Partnership and accelerate the deployment of biobased products in Europe The European Commission proposed a €3.8 billion Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...
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