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.
The European Commission is pushing for an ambitious new round of negotiations on world trade rules, but agricultural exporters say some of the European proposals amount of protectionism in disguise.
The U.S. once again is imposing penalty tariffs against soft wood lumber imported from Canada.
Losing just a modest amount of weight can cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in half for people who are at risk for the disease, according to a new study. In a more subtle improvement, the
Researchers reported significant progress in figuring out how erythropoietin, or EPO, can protect brain cells from damage during oxygen starvation and other trauma. The results are the latest in a
Tokyo formally protested the start of fishing by South Korean trawlers in water surrounding islands that are controlled by Russia and claimed by
The owner of the key patent covering embryonic stem cells filed suit in federal court against Geron Corp. to block the biotechnology company's effort to control important medical applications of the
The battle over the future of embryonic stem-cell research is shifting to a critical new front:the 60 stem-cell lines President George W. Bush says can be studied by U.S. scientists supported by
Public health officials presented new data suggesting that the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. has stabilized, but they warned of a potential resurgence unless efforts to prevent its spread are
Only a week ago the Washington consensus was that President Bush had no way out of his stem cell research dilemma. He was trapped between religion and science. But now, five days after his television
A dark green seaweed clones itself, grows as much as an inch a day and overpowers the local flora. Although safe for human swimmers, it is toxic to fish that eat it. Prof. Alexandre Meinesz, a
