Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and Merck said on Thursday they had agreed a multi-billion-dollar deal to jointly develop key cancer drugs. “The strategic collaboration is expected to further increase the number of treatment options available to patients,” British company AstraZeneca and its US peer said in a statement. Merck will pay AstraZeneca up to $8.5 billion … Read more
A US federal jury on Friday ordered Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta to pay nearly $218 million to 7,000 Kansas farmers after selling them genetically-modified corn seeds not approved for export to China. The farmers suffered profound economic damage in 2013 when Chinese authorities refused imports of corn grown with Syngenta’s bioengineered seeds, causing prices to … Read more
Paris Jackson has a message for her 1.4 million followers on Instagram – nudity is natural and “part of what makes us human”. The model and only daughter of the late pop superstar Michael Jackson had earlier been criticised for posting a photo of herself lying in the sun topless alongside her dog – using … Read more
US antitrust regulators approved ChemChina’s $43 billion takeover of Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta after they agreed the Chinese company must sell three products, the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday. Under a preliminary settlement, the FTC said it required the divestitures to address a loss of competition over the herbicide paraquat and two other … Read more