Chemical industry – Page 65
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Business
Quotient ups carbon-14 quota with recycling plant
Plant may provide a solution to the supply shortage of the radiolabel barium [C-14] carbonate
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Business
Illumina to sue Oxford Nanopore over patent infringement
UK firm’s use of pore proteins in DNA sequencing alleged to contravene two Illumina patents
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Business
BASF to cut 350 jobs in plant science research
Company will also close field trial sites in Hawaii, India and Puerto Rico
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Business
Glyphosate persistence raises questions
Herbicide remains in water and soil longer than thought, but how that translates to human and environmental risk is unclear
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Opinion
Rare earth magnates
China’s monopoly on production has a global impact, argues David Abraham
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Business
Pfizer agrees potential $785m fraud settlement
Whistleblower case relates to claims of Wyeth overcharging for acid reflux drugs between 2001 and 2006
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Feature
The white stuff
With potential health concerns raised over nanosize forms of TiO2, Emma Davies explores the ubiquitous white pigment’s past, present and future
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Business
AkzoNobel to buy BASF’s industrial coatings
€475 million deal includes technology, products and sites in the UK and South Africa
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Research
Incredibly rare and unstable mineral shows catalytic clout
Georgeite shows promise as a catalyst precursor for the synthesis of methanol
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Business
Lilly loses UK patent challenge
Allergan’s cancer drug generics do not infringe patents, say UK courts
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Business
GSK fined for stalling antidepressant generics
UK Competition and Markets Authority deems pay-for-delay deal illegal and imposes £45m in fines
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Business
Mylan to buy Meda in further generics consolidation
£6.9bn deal will give combined company ‘critical mass’ in US market
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Business
Oil slump reverberates in chemicals
Collapse in crude prices has complex and mixed effects on markets for derivative chemicals
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Business
ChemChina offers to buy Syngenta in $43bn takeover
Directors welcome deal that will allow agrochemicals giant to establish a presence in China
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Business
Medical devices consolidation continues
Abbott to buy Alere for $5.8bn to augment its point-of-care diagnostics business
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Business
BP to cut 7000 jobs
UK oil company reduces its workforce to cut costs in response to low oil price and charges from Deepwater Horizon incident
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Business
Seed secrets thief jailed
Chinese born US citizen pleads guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets from DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto
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Opinion
Pride comes before a fall
In labs it’s important not to let familiarity breed complacency, says Derek Lowe
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Business
Merck & Co joins hepatitis C party
New drug adds new treatment options and increases competition in premium market
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Business
J&J to cut 3000 jobs in medical devices unit
Cost-saving cuts will help ‘accelerate the pace of innovation’, company claims