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Bayer's GM rice defeat
n a lawsuit over genetically modified (GM) modified rice, jury members in an Arkansas circuit court ruled in March in favor of Riceland Foods of Stuttgart, Arkansas, a rice milling and exporting company, and against Bayer CropScience of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Monheim, Germany.

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Bruker Expands in China
Bruker marks another milestone in its nearly 40 year history in China, with the opening of a major applications, training and service center in Shanghai.

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Europe’s Food Poisoning Outbreak: Reaping What It Has Sown
For European organic marketers, politicians, activists and consumers, the irony is bitterer than fresh-picked radicchio. The technology that affords the best method of safeguarding the food supply is the one they’ve fought hardest to forestall and confound.

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Geographic Profiling as a Novel Spatial Tool for Targeting Infectious Disease Control
In this paper researchers suggest that geographic profiling could form a useful component of integrated control strategies relating to a wide variety of infectious diseases.

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Lumora Attracts Second Stage Funding
Lumora has secured £1.5 million from the completion of the company’s latest funding round, led by Catapult Venture Managers Ltd.

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PerkinElmer Acquires Labtronics Inc.
The acquisition of Labtronics follows the recent purchase of informatics companies CambridgeSoft and ArtusLabs by PerkinElmer, both announced in March.

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66% of Northern Irish Consumers have not heard of Campylobacter
New research for this year’s Food Safety Week reveals that two thirds of consumers in Northern Ireland have not heard of campylobacter, Northern Ireland’s most common form of food poisoning bacteria.

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Call for Research
The Food Standards Agency is commissioning a number of surveys of microbiological and chemical contaminants in food, as well as a trial of visual post-mortem inspections in pigs, and a study to investigate the effect of processing on pesticide residues in food.

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Seward Opens Singapore Office to Provide Additional Regional Support
Regional increase in sales drives global expansion to provide for customer needs.

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Scripps Research Scientists find E. Coli Enzyme must move to Function
Slight oscillations lasting just milliseconds have a huge impact on an enzyme's function, according to a new study by Scripps Research Institute scientists.
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