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BusinessNew J&J subsidiary to absorb talc lawsuit liabilities
Firm aims to use bankruptcy protection and a $2bn trust to resolve thousands of cancer claims
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Business
Bees face a barrage of chemical and environmental burdens
Better understanding of the combined effects of multiple stress factors could help reduce pollinator decline
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Business
Families sue LyondellBasell over fatal chemicals leak
Incident at acetic acid plant in La Porte, US, killed two workers in July
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Business
Predicting and preventing production losses with AI
Seebo’s machine learning technology helps chemical manufacturers get deep insight into their processes
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Webinar
Taking chemistry to market
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Business
New antiviral impresses against Covid-19
Merck & Co and Ridgeback’s molnupiravir reduces risk of hospitalisation and death, and may work against other coronaviruses
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Business
Second Daikin-America employee dies from chemical exposure
Chemical that killed two workers and hospitalised a third at a US fluorochemicals plant remains unidentified
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Opinion
Where are the Covid-19 drugs?
Small molecules appear to be lagging behind development of vaccine and antibody treatments
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Business
Chemours under fire for trying to exempt fluorochemicals from EU regulation
European Court of Justice will rule on whether GenX chemicals should be listed as substances of very high concern
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Business
Fully synthetic proteins make tailored medicines
Bright Peak Therapeutics makes modified protein drugs from scratch
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Business
The future of ‘next generation’ DNA sequencing
As it gets cheaper and easier to read genetic code, its applications are expanding rapidly
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Business
US judge accepts Purdue’s opioid bankruptcy settlement plan
Deal releases $4.3bn to combat addiction, but protects Sackler family from litigation
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Business
Chemical plant fire in Pakistan kills at least 17 workers
Blocked windows and exits hampered rescue efforts
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Business
Massive fire at UK polyurethanes plant
One worker remains missing a week after Leamington Spa incident
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Business
US grants Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine full approval
WHO calls for delay to booster programmes to allow more global distribution
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Business
US bans chlorpyrifos on all food crops
Environmental agency removes remaining exceptions for agricultural use of controversial insecticide
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Business
The multi-pronged search for Covid-19 treatments
Drugs that block infection or reduce inflammation will complement vaccine protection
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Opinion
The price of failure
Drug market structures and high R&D failure rates can tempt companies into bad pricing behaviour
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Business
Budget cuts at UK medicines regulator raise eyebrows
MHRA to cut 300 jobs amid financial pressures arising from Brexit
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Business
Brewing up plant-inspired medicines
Antheia reconstructs complex biochemical pathways in yeasts to speed up production of natural product-based drugs
