For decades, the ‘big six’ companies – BASF, Bayer, DuPont, Dow Chemical Company, Monsanto, and Syngenta – dominated the world’s agrochemicals industry. But soon their number will soon be reduced to the big four. And some of them will be even bigger.
The imperative to raise agricultural productivity has never been more urgent. Cath O'Driscoll reports.
Researchers have turned their attention to ‘smart’ contact lenses, exploiting miniaturised electronics and transparent conducting materials. In future, it may be that our lenses won’t just improve vision, but will also monitor biomarkers of disease.
The number of health and safety incidents in the chemicals sector in recent years has continued to fall, particularly in North America and in Europe. But could the uptake of digital technologies reduce that figure to zero?
Growing older may be a fact of life, but new ‘health span’ extending therapies promise to keep us fitter and healthier for longer.
With obesity levels spiralling out of control, researchers are delving into brain chemistry to understand what happens when people overeat
Mining of the sea bed has come into renewed focus as plans to extract the untapped mineral wealth in the oceans gather momentum
Pfizer’s vaccine PCV13 has been granted a patent for use in India, but the development is unlikely to solve the country’s pneumonia crisis
Recent months have seen a spate of new chemicals safety legislation being ushered in across China and other parts of Asia
Despite the country’s recent financial turmoil and political scandals, Brazil remains one of the most promising pharmaceutical markets in the world