03.02.12 London - AstraZeneca tries to shed some weight, anticipating a tough year ahead. 7,300 jobs will be gone soon, the Anglo-Swedish drug company said in a statement. Research and development operations will be cancelled in...
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16.01.12 Newhouse – An example of Schumpeter's dictum of creative destruction can be witnessed in Scotland. A former research site of US-pharma company Merck will be reborn as a biotech science park. BioCity Scotland Ltd, a joint venture...
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22.12.11 London - Nothing is well if the end is not well. For Astra Zeneca the end of 2011 isn't well at all. A new anti-ovarian cancer drug and a planned antidepressant have underperformed in tests. As a result, AstraZeneca will take a...
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17.12.11 Surrey – The UK government is investing an additional £80m (€93.5m) to fund continued development of the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) at Pirbright, an institute of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council...
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15.12.11 Rijeka/London – Allergies like asthma or psoriasis might arise from environmental toxins, suggest researchers from Rijeka University (Croatia) and King’s College (London). In mice, they identified a special population of T cells...
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