India heads for acrimonious debate on GM crops

The highly contentious debate on the introduction of genetically-modified (GM) food crops has...

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Single EU patent from 2014 should boost growth

Members of the European Parliament (EP) yesterday approved a unitary patent system across 25 EU...

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Fast and De Gucht warned yesterday that it will be difficult to surmount the last hurdles to...

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The EU and the United States will begin negotiating an FTA next year, officials from both sides...

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The human genome comprises a sequence of approximately 3 billion component parts, called...

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Disagreements between member states and the European Parliament (EP) may further delay the...

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Recent forecasts by the IFO institute predict that the German current account surplus will widen...

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Generic drugs (non-branded versions of drugs developed by large, established pharmaceutical...

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Neglected diseases, a group of tropical illnesses especially endemic in low-income countries,...

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The emergence of synthetic biology -- the artificial design of biological systems -- promises...

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