Study identifies host protein involved in EV71 infection in hand, foot and mouth disease

Singapore- Infection with enterovirus 71 (EV71) causes hand, foot and mouth disease, a highly contagious disease that us...

February 13, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Australian researchers identify drug to reverse alcohol effect

A group of researchers from Queensland University of Technology, Australia has identified a drug that could potenti...

February 10, 2018 | Saturday | News
Japanese engineers test titanium fiber plates for fixing bone injuries

Researchers from Shinshu University have found that, unlike conventional plates, the titanium fiber plates do not cause ...

February 9, 2018 | Friday | News
Cord blood stem cell study shows promise for autism

Singapore – A first-of-its-kind double-blinded, crossover study of children with autism who were treated with...

February 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
New study reveals body’s mechanism to prevent useful bacteria from causing disease

Singapore – A new study reveals a mechanism by which the immune system may decide whether a bacterial species...

February 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
Japan, Australia researchers work on early Alzheimer’s detection

Researchers at Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and University of Melbourne, Australia and Japanese N...

February 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
US researchers develop immunity injections against cancer

A group of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, US has developed two immune-stimulating injections...

February 5, 2018 | Monday | News
Scientists develop technology for studying blood vessel formation

A team of researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo, CNRS and INSERM, has report...

February 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Singapore team works on photodynamic therapy for cancer

A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a way to wirelessly deliver light int...

January 31, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Russian researchers develop a rapid diagnostic test for heart attack

  A team of researchers at the National University of Science and Technology MISiS, Russia has developed...

January 30, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Experts in Tokyo design a novel flourescent probe

A team of experts at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) has developed a new probe that coul...

January 25, 2018 | Thursday | News
USC researchers create flexible biosensor for tracking glucose

A team of researchers from the University of South Carolina has developed an ultra-thin, flexible sensor that could be i...

January 25, 2018 | Thursday | News
Chinese scientists devise a nanoparticle based vehicle

A team of scientists from National Center for NanoScience and Technology, Beijing, China, in cooperation with medical sc...

January 23, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Engineers in US develop a robot to treat rare birth defect

Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Boston's Children Hospital, Harvard Medical School have created a robot t...

January 19, 2018 | Friday | News
Up to 650 000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal flu each year: WHO

According to new estimates by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC) which is the World H...

January 4, 2018 | Thursday | News
NIH discovery brings stem cell therapy for eye disease closer to the clinic

Scientists at the National Eye Institute (NEI) which is a part of the National Institutes of Health, report that tiny tu...

January 3, 2018 | Wednesday | News
German researchers conduct a new study on Ebola

A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Phillips Universität Marburg in Germany has found out t...

January 1, 2018 | Monday | News
Researchers in Japan develop new strategy for 3D printing of tissues

A group of researchers at Osaka University, Japan have refined the method of making bio-ink droplets stick to each other...

December 28, 2017 | Thursday | News
Defending against environmental stressors may shorten lifespan: NIH Research

According to the new research by National Institutes of Health, A shorter life may be the price an organism pays for cop...

December 27, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Zika remains a research and public health challenge: NIAID scientists

Scientist from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) after examining the current scientific ...

December 26, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Roche and Ignyta signs merger agreement

Roche and Ignyta, Inc. has announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for Roche to fully acquir...

December 22, 2017 | Friday | News
US scientists develop a nanomedicine platform for cancer

Oregon State University scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which ti...

December 22, 2017 | Friday | News
Crown Bioscience International announces agreement with JSR Corporation

Crown Bioscience International has entered into the Agreement and Plan of Merger with JSR Corporation and Gallo Merger S...

December 21, 2017 | Thursday | News
Singapore researchers use AI for treating eye diseases

A collaborative study between the Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University o...

December 21, 2017 | Thursday | News
Bristol-Myers Squibb granted exclusive license by Ono Pharmaceutical

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced an agreement that grants Bristol-Myers Squib...

December 14, 2017 | Thursday | News
Scientists in China develop novel photo thermal therapy

A team of scientists at China are working with nanorods made of bismuth sulfide to kill tumor cells with heat when they ...

December 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Salk scientists modify CRISPR to treat diabetes, kidney disease and muscular dystrophy

Salk scientists have created a new version of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology that allows them to activate gen...

December 11, 2017 | Monday | News
Researchers in Korea create a bioelectronic nose

  Researchers at Seoul National University in South Korea have developed a bioelectronic "nose" that can specifica...

December 8, 2017 | Friday | News
Researchers in US work on creating artificial life

A team of researchers at the Scripps Research Institute, California, have developed a living organism that incorpor...

November 30, 2017 | Thursday | News
UK biologists develop a unique cancer therapy

A group of scientists at King’s college in London, in collaboration with a British company Lift Biosciences, have ...

November 28, 2017 | Tuesday | News
US researchers build a data recorder from bacteria

A group of researchers from Columbia University Medical Center in the US have converted a natural bacterial immune syste...

November 27, 2017 | Monday | News
Hong Kong researchers design tiny robots for treating diseases

An international team of researchers, led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has developed micro-robots by coating ...

November 24, 2017 | Friday | News
Chinese researchers develop electronic skin

A team of researchers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China has developed a jellyfish-inspired e...

November 22, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Researchers in Japan develop a color device for the heart

A group of researchers from Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Science (iCeMS), in collabor...

November 21, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Engineers at NUS develop a microfibre sensor

A team of engineers from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a soft, flexible and stretchable microfibe...

November 17, 2017 | Friday | News
Torque launches platform to develop a new class of Immune Cell Therapies

An immune-oncology company of flagship pioneering, Torque has announced the launch of its technology platform to create ...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Philip Vickers appointed as new CEO of Northern Biologics

Developer of immune-oncology products, Northern Biologics has announced that Philip Vickers is joining the company as CE...

November 13, 2017 | Monday | News
Singapore researchers develop self-illuminating nanoagents

A research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have created polymer nanoagents that can 'light up' t...

November 13, 2017 | Monday | News
US scientists use gold nanoshells for drug delivery

A team of scientists at Rice University and Northwestern University in the US employed gold nanoshells to deliver toxic ...

November 10, 2017 | Friday | News
Korean researchers use acupuncture for cancer treatment

Researchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea are using nanotechnology-enhanced ...

November 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
Researchers collaborate to study neuro-degenerative diseases

A collaboration between researchers in Japan and the United States has resulted in the creation of a microdevice that al...

November 8, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New gene identified responsible for Scoliosis and Bone Malformations

Singapore- "Mutations in fibronectin cause a subtype of spondylometaphyseal dysplasia with 'corner fractures'" is t...

November 2, 2017 | Thursday | News
Scientists in Bangladesh invent convenient cancer detection test

A group of Bangladeshi scientists at the University of Wollongong (UOW) and Griffith University in Australia has develop...

October 30, 2017 | Monday | News
Researchers in Korea develop blood test technique for Alzheimer’s

A group of researchers at the Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea have developed a new technique for a series...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | News
Japanese scientists devise a method for developing living antibiotic

A group of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan have discovered a method to ma...

October 23, 2017 | Monday | News
Researchers in Canada create a smart bandage

Researchers at University of Victoria in Canada have developed a wound dressing that detects the first sign of infection...

October 16, 2017 | Monday | News
Japanese scientists grow drugs In chicken eggs

Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan have managed to genetically...

October 13, 2017 | Friday | News
Korean scientists invent hydrogel to combat rheumatoid arthritis

Scientists at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea have invented a hydrogel to fight rheumatoid arthritis and ...

October 12, 2017 | Thursday | News
Singapore scientists develop new DNA technology to detect breast cancer relapse

Singapore – Researchers in Singapore, together with international collaborators from Denmark and USA, have success...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
Chinese researchers use traditional ink for cancer treatment

A group of Chinese researchers have reported that a Chinese traditional ink could noninvasively and effectively treat ca...

September 28, 2017 | Thursday | News
Korean scientists use bilirubin nanoparticles for cancer therapy

A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed combined photoacoustic imaging...

September 27, 2017 | Wednesday | News
NTU scientists develop gel patch to speed up healing

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore have developed a new gel patch prototype that could sp...

September 26, 2017 | Tuesday | News
HKU researchers connect liver cancer with Hepatitis B

Researchers in Hong Kong have found that hepatitis B treatment reduces the incidence of liver cancer. Hepatitis B is a c...

September 21, 2017 | Thursday | News
Researchers design a paper based test for Tuberculosis

Conventional methods such as sputum smear microscopy, chest X-rays and molecular-based tests require equipment, electric...

September 14, 2017 | Thursday | News
Australian researchers develop novel therapies for cancer spread

In a breakthrough against skin cancer, Australian researchers have developed a combination of new treatments to stop mel...

September 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Zika virus could be used to treat brain cancer patients, study suggest

Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California, San Diego have ...

September 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Japanese researchers design device for drug toxicity

Researchers at Kyoto University‘s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences have developed a ‘body-on-...

August 28, 2017 | Monday | News
Scientists in China use nanoparticles to kill bacteria

Magnetic nanoparticle clusters have the power to punch through biofilms to reach bacteria that can foul water treatment ...

August 25, 2017 | Friday | News
Japanese researchers develop a long-lasting insulin analog

A group of researchers in from Tokai University, Tohoku University, and Osaka University has succeeded in developing syn...

August 24, 2017 | Thursday | News
Japanese researchers use brain imaging to detect kidney disease

Using tools originally designed for brain imaging, researchers in Japan have developed a technique that could replace in...

August 23, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Researchers develop new method for measuring blood pressure

Automatic blood pressure devices are prone to significant errors, sometimes leading to the prescription of blood pressur...

August 22, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Breakthrough immunotherapy for chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Professor Antonio Bertoletti (Scientific Founder) & Dr Sarene Koh (Product Development Director) of Lion TCR Pte Ltd...

August 8, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Researchers create a unique system for drug delivery

In an attempt to produce a better drug delivery system, researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan are focusing on a ...

July 28, 2017 | Friday | News
Non-toxic underwater adhesive could bring new surgical glue

Researchers from Purdue University have created a new adhesive material called ELY16, an “elastin-like polypeptide...

July 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
Korean scientists create first nanoparticle-based tissue adhesive

Researchers at the Center for Nanoparticle Research, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in collaboration with ...

July 21, 2017 | Friday | News
Scientists develop skin sensor to monitor health

Scientists at the University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a hypoallergenic, breathable sensor that can be worn on the ...

July 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Celltrion eyes product and sales expansion after IPO

Ina recent press conference held in Seoul, Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion said that it would actively seek out new dr...

July 17, 2017 | Monday | News
Korean researchers discover a drug for treating stent patients

Researchers at the Seoul National University Hospital have found out that coating stents with an erectile dysfunction dr...

July 13, 2017 | Thursday | News
Japanese scientists develop high resolution imaging technique

A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan have developed block-face serial microscopy tomography (FAST), an imag...

July 11, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Sun Pharma, Samsung Biologics ink deal for psoriasis drug

India’s drug giant Sun Pharma has inked a long term manufacturing agreement with Korea’s Samsung Biologics f...

July 5, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Australian researchers offer hope for bone cancer

An Australian-led research team at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has demonstrated a new therapeutic approach ...

July 3, 2017 | Monday | News
Baheal Pharma brings Watson for genomics to China

Singapore: IBM Watson recently announced its plans to expand its partnership with Baheal Pharmaceutical, bringing Watson...

June 23, 2017 | Friday | News
Plant based medicine to treat Alzheimer’s

Japanese scientists at the University of Toyama have developed a method to isolate and identify active compounds in plan...

June 21, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New flu blood test developed

Australian researchers have developed a blood test that can predict, with 91 per cent accuracy, which influenza patients...

June 16, 2017 | Friday | News
Anti-HIV compound found in plant

A study conducted by scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Hong Kong Baptist University, and the ...

June 15, 2017 | Thursday | News
Snake venom may replace aspirin

Scientists at the National Taiwan University have found that snake venom can provide a safer alternative to drugs like a...

June 13, 2017 | Tuesday | News
An improved tool to detect cancer

In a collaborative research project, scientists from Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics, the University of Ad...

June 9, 2017 | Friday | News
Novel way to track dengue infection

A team from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has found a new use for an 'old' tec...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
3D heart tissue created for drug testing

Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology of A*STAR Singapore have engineered a three-dimensiona...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
Device for quick, effective treatment of common hearing disorder

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel handheld device, known as CL...

May 26, 2017 | Friday | News
Paper test strip designed for heart patients

A group of Chinese scientists have developed a new test strip that could potentially allow heart failure patients to do ...

May 26, 2017 | Friday | News
New therapy developed for atherosclerosis

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) and the Sheba Medical Center in Israel have developed a new therapy to treat ...

May 24, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Scientists to test whether Zika can kill brain cancer cells

Scientists in Britain are planning to harness the Zika virus to try to kill brain tumour cells in experiments that could...

May 23, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Natural resistance to malaria linked to variation in human red blood cell receptors

According to new study by University of Oxford, large structural variants in human glycophorin genes, which are unusuall...

May 19, 2017 | Friday | News
New imaging technique for removing tumors

Researchers at BRITElab at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and the University of Western Australia have deve...

May 12, 2017 | Friday | News
Metabolic markers to diagnose typhoid fever

Researchers at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam have identified a metabolite 'signature' that can a...

May 10, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Smart contact lens sensor developed

A recent study, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea has proposed the...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
Frog substance shown to kill human flu viruses

According to a recent research led by Joshy Jacob  of Emory University with a team at the Rajiv Gandhi Ce...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
A new test kit for early cancer detection

Scientists around the world are striving for effective detection of cancer in the early stages, and a Chinese scientist ...

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
A glow stick for detecting cancer

Chemiluminescence, or chemical light, is the principle behind the glow sticks or light sticks used as quick tools to gra...

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Brains can be transplanted in the near future

Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human ...

April 28, 2017 | Friday | News
A spinach leaf turned into a functional heart tissue

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts have identified a way to use spinach leaves for bu...

March 27, 2017 | Monday | News
Scientists in Ireland classified new organ in human body

Scientists in Ireland have recently classified a brand new organ inside human body that has been hiding in plain sight i...

January 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Teijin, Versartis partner for commercialization of Somavaratan in Japan

Singapore: Teijin Limited and Versartis, Inc. has announced that the companies and their wholly owned subsidiaries have ...

August 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
Cytori, Lorem to commercialize Cytori Cell Therapy

Singapore: US-based Cytori Therapeutics and China-based Lorem Vascular have formed a partnership to commercialize Cytori...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Thermo launches single cell analyses platform

Singapore: Thermo Scientific has launched CeLLInsight CX5 High Content Screening (HCS) Platform, a high-content quantita...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
New possibilities for leukaemia immunotherapy

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new class of lipids in the leuka...

June 25, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China's Jiangsu Hengrui to build a new biologics facility

Singapore: China-based Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine recently announced plans to build a biologics manufacturing plant in Suz...

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Aussie firm gets FDA nod to supply cancer antibody in US labs

Singapore: Sienna Cancer Diagnostics, Melbourne-based biotechnology company focused on developing novel in-vitro diagnos...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Korea's Green cross expands cell therapy business in China

Singapore: South Korean biopharmaceutical company, Green Cross, is expanding its presence in China by building a cell th...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News

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