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 U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling benefical to the crop-biotechnology industry upheld the legality of patents for plants and seed. The 6-2 opinion keeps intact hundreds of utility patents granted by
Made by the tiny Sante Fe Natural Tobacco Co. the cigarette has built a loyal following among hip younger smokers drawn by its boast of being additive free and in some cases made from organically
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s efforts to protect its branded drugs from genetic competition face big potential setbacks, from both the federal and state governments in the U.S.
Japanese officials found a fourth suspected case of so called mad-cow disease amid fears the brain wasting bovine illness is spreading. A 40 month-old Holstein cow slaughted at a meat processing
Contrary to widely held scientific belief that anthrax spores settle and stay put, limiting the spread of the deadly disease an experiment by U.S. officials inside Sen. Tom Daschle's office found
Kos Pharmaceuticals Inc. said it won final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market Advisor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that could become an important weapon in the battle
The venture, called Threemile Canyon Farms, near Boardmen Oregon, recently began operating one of the biggest agricultural operations in the U.S. The effort calls for milking up to 15000 dairy cows,
Chen Sufang, a farmer and the mother of three teenagers, fell ill last year with headaches, cough and a fever that wouldn't go away. Her family gave her cold medicine. Local health authorities
Officially 93 cases of dengue fever, a debilitating virus transmitted by infected mosquitoes have been confirmed in Hawaii. Most of them occurred in lower Nahiku, a secluded, jungle like
Phenermine, half of the controversial weight-loss combination fen-phen, is back. However, this time it is being combined with popular antidepressants to help people lose weight.
