Seven new cotton varieties designed to help cotton farmers meet some of their most challenging conditions are being released for the 2014 season. Developed by Bayer CropScience, the new varieties can better handle tough-to-control weeds, ...
German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced that it has initiated a project to convert carbon from steel mill gasses into valuable chemicals. The electricity for this project is to come from renewable sources. ThyssenKrupp said that the ...
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The most-recognized anti-infective brand in North America is Cipro. The brand was most-recognized by 7 percent of physicians in a survey conducted by Brand Institute Inc. during the second quarter of 2013. Cipro, comprising ciprofloxacin, ...
Polymer Technology Systems, Inc. (PTS), the U.S.-based manufacturer of the CardioChek family of point-of-care diagnostic products, announced today that it has acquired the A1CNow® family of products from Bayer Diabetes Care. The ...
The Board of Directors of Algeta ASA unanimously recommends voluntary cash offer from Bayer to acquire the entire issued share capital of Algeta ? Offer at NOK 362 per Algeta share, in cash, valuing the total share capital of Algeta at ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments: Chinese Woman Killed by cNew to Humans A Chinese woman has died from a bird flu strain that has never before affected humans, and the World Health Organization called the ...
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Genzyme, a Sanofi company, has obtained an approval from Health Canada for its Lemtrada (alemtuzumab) for the treatment of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Health Canada has approved Lemtrada for the management of adult ...
US-based life sciences venture capital firm Versant Ventures is expanding its operations into Canada in order to invest in early-stage drug discovery programs. The company has established an office in Vancouver this year and created a new ...
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Druggability Technologies (DRGT) has entered into a multi-year collaboration deal with Bayer HealthCare that will deploy DRGT's proprietary Super-API platform to support Bayer HealthCare's formulation efforts directed at enhancing compound ...
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Bayer MaterialScience has increased it investment in its production sites for polyether polyols in South Charleston, West Virginia, and Channelview, Texas. Both sites produce polyether polyols - a key component in the development of ...
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Bayer HealthCare has submitted VEGF Trap-Eye (aflibercept solution for injection) for regulatory approval in Japan to treat patients with myopic choroidal neovascularization (myopic CNV), one of the most common causes of eye disease. In ...
Polylactic Acid (PLA) is thermoplastic polyester derived from renewable feedstock such as corn starch, sugarcane, wheat, tapioca roots. PLA has wide application such as in Packaging, Textile, Agriculture, Transportation, Bio-Medical and ...
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The rising demand for polyurethane automotive coatings has prompted Bayer MaterialScience to expand the production of two important coating raw materials: hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI). After a ...
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Coating applications, one of the major sources of industrial volatile organic compound emissions, are facing stricter industry regulations as air pollution has emerged as a major issue for the Chinese government, sources said. The central ...
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Germany-based Bayer HealthCare and US-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Nexavar (sorafenib), an oral multi-kinase inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with ...