FRANKFURT— Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation.
Six months after American Home Products Corp. recalled Redux over safety concerns, the company is releasing new data suggesting that the diet pill is far less dangerous than previously thought. Last
Rolls-Royce PLC said it has signed an agreement with Aviation Industries of China that will see three Chinese universities and research institutions working on a new phase of joint research in
AIDS deaths in the U.S. are declining sharply as a direct result of powerful drug cocktails first introduced in early 1996, according to a provocative new research report. AIDS activists and
Officials now fear the nutria as big as a cat, with a long rat's tail and the webbed rear feet of a duck poses a threat to Thailand's lush, rice growing wetlands. When they're free, nutria use their
They keep anthrax bacteria in the basement of a faded red brick building, not far from the yellow fever virus, the botulism bacteria and some of the hundreds of organisms that cause the common cold.
Franco-Italian semiconductor maker SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said it has developed a technique to build global positioning by satellite navigation systems using only two microchips. The
Glaxo Wellcome PLC continued its cautious march back into the vaccine business by unveiling a DNA vaccine collaboration with Powderject Pharmaceuticals PLC, a fledgling Oxford, England land based
A group of 20 anti-smoking activists and self described nicotine addicts filed a class action suit against a Japanese affiliate of the U.S. tobacco giant Philip Morris Co., demanding it stop sales
An industry panel selected Apple Computer Inc.'s QuickTime technology as a standard in a new multimedia specification for the Internet, providing a psychological boost to the beleaguered computer
Mitsubishi Corp.'s U.S. auto and electronic arms have entered into an unusual pact with environmental critics to curb corporate pollution and waste and otherwise lessen their environmental impact.
