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.
Mining companies are discovering gold in old personal computers. And copper, silver, platinum and palladium-metals that are increasingly being recycled from discarded computer and electronic gear and
Central to the public debate over President George.W. Bush's embryonic-stem-cell policy, the National Institutes of Health is expected this week to provide the first detailed description of the
China's top trade negotiator, Long Yongtu, said Beijing will likely allow a grace period for imports free of its restrictive rules for genetically modified food while authorities fine tune the
Brazil, Latin America's biggest country, is winning the battle against AIDS, but it is still struggling to wipe out leprosy. Like AIDS, leprosy is communicable disease that elicits powerful feelings
The U.S. National Institutes of Health's naming of the developers of 64 embryonic stem cell lines eligible for study using government funds sparked a new round of questioning among scientists and
The villagers Wenlou in central China's Henan province is paying a terrible price in HIV infections. The government, shedding light on a disaster that local officials had tried to conceal, said that
The Norwegian or Japanese whaler slicing open a dead whale sees a useful commodity,while the owner of a whale-watching business in Seattle or Virginia Beach needs a living and preferably docile
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Medtronic Inc.'s InSync device for U.S. marketing, the first electrical device ever approved for the treatment of congestive heart-failure patients.
A group of California researchers has called into question the startling estimate, published in two landmark papers on the human genome earlier this year, that humans have only about 30,000 genes.
Australian farmers rejected a proposed free-trade agreement with the U.S. in the near future, citing huge political and economic
