The Union chemicals minister Ram Vilas Paswan is putting all pressure on the Group of Ministers (GoM) to clear the pending pharmaceutical policy, which he has been trying to make it reality over the last four years.

Geneart AG, global leader in gene synthesis and specialist in the field of Synthetic Biology, announced that the company has been awarded patent EP 1 356 111 "Kernexportreportersystem" (Nucleus Export Reporter System) by the European patent office.

Exact Sciences Corporation announced that a United States patent was issued that covers the use of differentially methylated vimentin as a marker for the detection of colon cancer.

In what seems to be a corrective move after dropping the controversial draft resolution on counterfeit drugs and IMPACT fiasco, the World Health Organisation will now prepare a new report for member states' consideration at the World Health Assembly to address the public health dimension of issues and on what WHO is doing to strengthen the drug regulatory authorities.