Finally shares in agricultural bioscience business Plant Impact put on 15% to 41.75p after it unveiled a partnership with Bayer CropScience worth $9m to develop technology for soy cultivation.
Time is of the essence: it is not worth trying to develop something yourself if somebody else can do it either for or with you.
EDF said "non".Saudi Arabia's government signed three deals worth $25 billion to develop natural gas reserves, two headed by ExxonMobil and one by Royal Dutch/Shell.
Both Elixir executives argue that the biology of the seven SIRT genes needs to be better worked out before it is worth trying to develop drugs based on them.
Given that LOXL1 is "the whole story of the disease, not just the first chapter," it may also be worth trying to develop treatments based on increasing its rate of production in the eye, Dr. Stefansson said.
There were practical reasons, of a kind, in that it did not seem worth trying to develop a separate side for the few games that were played, sideshow as they were to the main event, and financial resources were a whole lot different.
The deal is the first major oil contract with a foreign firm since the US-led war and was followed up by an agreement with Shell, potentially worth $4bn, to develop a joint venture with the South Gas Company in Basra.
GM won federal contracts worth $15.8 million to develop two phases of what the government describes as a "next-generation parade limousine program".
Since there are many QTLs/ genes responsible for grain Zn concentration located on different chromosomes, QTL pyramiding, Marker Assisted Recurrent Selection (MARS) and Genomics Assisted Breeding approaches are worth trying to develop high-Zn rice.
But while they sell diesel passenger cars overseas, the likes of Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Honda say they'll wait and see whether it's worth it to develop a U.S.-friendly diesel platform.
