Drugmaker Acorda suffers after deaths in Parkinson's Trial

U.S. based Acorda Therapeutics Inc. suffered a rapid decrease by a record 40 percent after patients died in final-s...

November 16, 2017 | Thursday | News
Global Gene Corp collaboration aims to accelerate research into Cancers

Singapore - Global Gene Corp (UK based genomics data platform and applications company) announced a collaboration with T...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore scientists make a major breakthrough in fibrotic diseases

Singapore – Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the National Heart Centre Singapore ...

November 12, 2017 | Sunday | News
Significant cost reduction in COPD care with simple, drug-free device

The Aerobika device (Trudell Medical International) is a cost-effective treatment option in the management of COPD exace...

November 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
Sanofi walks away from Voyager’s phase 2/3 Parkinson’s gene therapy

Sanofi has decided to walk away from the Parkinson’s gene therapy covered by its $845 million alliance with V...

November 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New Study Indicates Bone Marrow Protein to be the Target for Improving Stem Cell Transplants

Singapore – Bone marrow contains hematopoietic stem cells, the precursors to every blood cell type. These cells sp...

November 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Preterm babies could be saved by delayed clamping of Umbilical Cord

Singapore – Thousands of preterm babies could be saved by waiting 60 seconds before clamping the umbilical cord af...

October 30, 2017 | Monday | News
Study shows how nerves drive prostate cancer 

Singapore - In a study in Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore Medicine, repo...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | News
New CSHL research hopes to find ways of altering fear memories

Singapore - Our brains wire themselves up during development according to a series of remarkable genetic programs that h...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
TB Alliance declares potential of two novel TB drugs

TB Alliance recently announced that TBA-7371 and sutezolid entered phase 1 clinical trials. Both compounds have proceede...

October 12, 2017 | Thursday | News
A Zika vaccine shows signs of success in an early human trial

A DNA-based Zika vaccine from Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc and South Korea’s GeneOne Life Science induced anti-Zika ...

October 9, 2017 | Monday | News
ABS plans to undertake human clinical trials in New Brunswick, Canada

Advanced Bifurcation Systems (ABS or the Company), a clinical stage medical device company developing an innovative sten...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
ASCO and Friends of Cancer Research say cancer clinical trials should be inclusive of broader range of patients

Clinical trials researching cancer therapies should be more inclusive of a broader range of patients, according to the A...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
Researchers rattled by the revised definition of clinical trials

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to enforce the new rules which are based on a revised definition of &...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
New drug approved for fighting cholesterol

A newly-developed drug which has recently been approved for use in Singapore may aid in the fight against cholesterol. ...

October 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
FDA puts hold on clinical trials for CAR-T cell therapy

French biotech firm Cellectis has revealed that the Food and Drug Administration has put a clinical holdon two of its cl...

September 18, 2017 | Monday | News
Startup Antidote raises £11m

Antidote Technologies, a clinical trial matching platform, has raised £11m in a funding round led by Merck Global ...

September 15, 2017 | Friday | News
TPG Capital Asia acquires major stake in Taiwan clinical trial firm

TPG Capital Asia, a global investment firm has acquired a majority stake in Taiwan-based clinical trial services provide...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News