After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
Tags: imagining, post-antibiotics, future
Bavarian Nordic, an international biotechnology company, has announced that Health Canada has granted a notice of compliance approving IMVAMUNE for active immunization against smallpox in a public health emergency. IMVAMUNE is indicated ...
European Medicines Agency's (EMA) the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued positive opinion for AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's of Xigduo for adults aged 18 and older with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The ...
Aker Solutions agreed today to sell its well-intervention services business area to EQT, a Swedish private equity fund, for an enterprise value of NOK 4 billion. The agreement includes an earn-out provision where Aker Solutions will ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Belgium-based biopharmaceutical firm ThromboGenics has announced that its partner Alcon has launched Jetrea (ocriplasmin) for the treatment of symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) in Canada. According to the company, Canada is the ...
Tags: Alcon, Vitreomacular Adhesion
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc. and its subsidiaries (PWA) have completed a $9.2 million acquisition of the operating assets of oil and gas technology company ProSep Inc. and are launching a combined portfolio of patented solutions to treat ...
Tags: PWA, complete, acquisition, ProSep
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed exploration well 16/2-20S, located north of the Johan Sverdrup discovery in PL501, in the North Sea sector of the ...
Tags: Lundin Petroleum, Torvastad, exploration, well, PL501
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/2-20 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/2-20 A will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility ...
Tags: drilling, permit, well, production, licence
The Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference (AOG), has joined forces with the Australian Institute for Non-Destructive Testing (AINDT) and the Institute of Instrumentation, Control and Automation (IICA) to bring two new zones to the ...
Tags: oil, gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Reference is made to the announcement on 7 November 2013 regarding the Letter of Intent entered into with COSCO (Qidong) Offshore Co., Ltd. for the engineering, procurement and construction of two semi-submersible accommodation vessels, ...
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Aker Solutions ASA secured a two-year option agreement extension valued at NOK 3 billion from Statoil ASA to provide maintenance and modifications work offshore Norway. The option is part of a 2010 framework agreement to provide ...
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The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web spoke out Friday against what he called a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship," warning that it is threatening the future of democracy. Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, web service
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in September this year Turkey's pig iron imports amounted to 48,190 mt, decreasing by 37.71 percent month on month and down 57.72 percent year on year. The total ...
Tags: Pig Iron Imports, Mineral
Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad announced today that EnQuest Heather Limited together with EnQuest ENS Limited, First Oil and Gas Limited, Nautical Petroleum Limited and Nautical ...
Bayer HealthCare has received marketing authorization from the European Commission (EC) for its Xofigo injection for the treatment of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral ...