Biocon gets DCGI nod for psoriasis drug itolizumab

Bangalore: Biocon received marketing authorization from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for its novel biolo...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Genovate biotech to invest $1bn in China

Singapore: Genovate Biotechnology, Taiwan based pharmaceutical company, has started the construction of phase I of its I...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
New breakthrough in dementia research

Singapore: Researchers at the Taipei-based Academia Sinica announced that they have discovered a new molecule that aids ...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Potential biomarker for cancer diagnosis identified

Singapore: Scientists studying cancer development have known about micronuclei for some time. These erratic, small extra...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
World's first IVF born after DNA sequencing

Singapore: The world's first test tube baby to have undergone an embryo selection using a procedure that can read the en...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Merck to market single-use fill solutions with Groninger

Singapore: Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck has signed a co-marketing agreement with Germany based Gr...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Nuvilex licenses Austrianova's livecell encapsulation technology

Singapore: Nuvilex, an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions forthe treatment of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
We scaled back operations at our Mumbai R&D unit: Piramal

Singapore: The global CRAMS (Contract Research and Manufacturing Services) segment is becoming intensely competitive. Co...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
Bone marrow banking is a possibility in future

Singapore: More than 50,000 stem cell transplants are performed each year worldwide. A research team led by US-based Wei...

March 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Patrys' cancer diagnostic gets Australian govt grant

Singapore: Australia based clinical stage biotechnology company Patrys' scientific collaborators at Macquarie University...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Scientists unravel proteins that mediates sense of touch

Singapore: Solving a long standing mystery, the researchers at the Scripps Research Institute have identified a new mech...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
China develops Ebola diagnostic tests

Singapore: The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said in a statement that top health authorities had approved th...

December 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Singapore regulatory grants cGMP certificate to Lonza

Singapore: Biologics manufacturing global firm, Lonza Bioscience, has received cGMP certification from Singapore Health ...

April 21, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
NUS, Thermo Fisher Scientific strike alliance

Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) and Life Sciences Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific have struck a stra...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
China Biologic's subsidiary signs plasma sourcing deal

Singapore: Guizhou Taibang Biological Products, subsidiary of China Biologic Product, has collaborated  with Xinjiang D...

September 4, 2015 | Friday | News
Medicago, Mitsubishi to co-cultivate plants

Singapore: Medicago is collaborating with Mitsubishi Chemical to evaluate the latter's closed cultivation Plant Factory ...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
WuXi Biologics to build world's largest biologics facility

Singapore: Wuxi Biologics, a wholly owned subsidiary of China-based WuXi PharmaTech, recently announced that it has begu...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News