Japan identifies emerging infectious disease caused by new 'nairovirus'

A previously unknown virus that can infect humans and cause disease has been identified by scientists in Japan. The nove...

October 8, 2021 | Friday | News
"IVF genetic testing to prevent birth defects in older women"

With an increasing trend of late motherhood, many women across Asia and worldwide are choosing to postpone childbea...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | Opinion
India develops catalytic technology for sustainable production of chiral APIs

India is heavily dependent on importing (~85%) Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), and a significant proportion of...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
CellVec to strengthen manufacturing and supply capacity of lentiviral vectors

Southeast Asia’s first GMP-compliant CDMO for viral vector manufacturing CellVec Pte Ltd has entered a strate...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
GenScript establishes Korean legal entity to accelerate commercialization

GenScript, a global biotech company, has established a legal entity "GenScript Biotech Korea Ltd." to strength...

October 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Merck launches excipient technology platform for protein-based therapeutics

The Life Science business of Merck has launched a new Viscosity Reduction Excipient Platform to reduce the viscosity and...

October 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China sets ambitious biomedical goals at Binhai

The Binhai New Area in North China's port city of Tianjin has gathered together more than 1,500 biom...

October 1, 2021 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific to manufacture nucleic acid isolation kits in India

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, will manufacture its Applied Biosystems MagMAX Dx Pr...

September 29, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Neurophth launches GMP Manufacturing Facility for Gene Therapy in China

Neurophth Biotechnology Ltd., a fully integrated genomic medicines company seeking to improve lives through the curative...

September 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Livinguard develops antiviral and antibacterial masks

Livinguard, a Swiss-based company has developed protective face masks with antiviral and antibacterial properties. ...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Takeda invests $14 M to expand first ‘Zero Carbon Emissions' biotech unit in Singapore

Takeda Pharmaceutical building is preparing to follow the Singapore Green Mark Zero Energy certification scheme fir...

September 24, 2021 | Friday | News
Life Science Incubator launched at the German Center Singapore

An official launch of the "Life Science Incubator" was held on 22 September 2021, at German Center Singap...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Victoria's Health Innovation Centre to create high-value jobs in Australia

Monash University in Australia will establish Victoria’s Health Innovation Centre, including a flagship cardiovasc...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Taiwan targets to secure technology leadership in global supply chains

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen proposed to place space technology at the heart of Taiwan’s industrial developm...

September 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea to establish national digital library on health and genome data by 2028

National Project of Bio Big Data in Korea has selected US-based Illumina technology for the second pilot project in thei...

September 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore's iGene Laboratory donates 25,000 SARS-CoV-2 PCR Kits to Indonesia

Singapore's iGene Laboratory Pte. Ltd donates 25,000 SARS-CoV-2 PCR Kits to Indonesia to assist the gover...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
South Korea's POSTECH to raise future medical scientists

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has recognized the bio sector as a key future ...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
South Korea hosts Global Bio Conference 2021

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Minister Kim Ganglip) at South Korea will hold the Global Bio Conference 2021 enti...

September 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Cryoviva Singapore expands Cord Blood Banking services to Bahrain

Local family cord blood bank Cryoviva Singapore is continuing with its rapid geographic growth plans with an entry ...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Swiss-firm launches high-throughput sequencing kit for tissue RNA, cells, and blood sample

Switzerland-based Alithea Genomics, a rapidly growing player in the transcriptomics field, has launched its first MERCUR...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
University of Western Australia opens cryo-EM facility to tackle critical research

A Nobel prize-winning technique that underpins worldwide efforts to understand and treat diseases, and develop new drugs...

September 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Synthetic biology ensuring upto $27B dividend, 44,000 jobs by 2040 for Australia

According to a new report released by Australia’s national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial ...

August 31, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia makes changes to Medical Research Future Fund Act 2015

On 25 August 2021, the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Stuart Robert MP, introduc...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore turns pollen into 3D printing ink for biomedical applications

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a way to use sunflower pollen to de...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea to build world's first clinical-grade exosome GMP manufacturing facility

ExoCoBio Inc. has announced the initiation of its "Project EGMP", starting with the construction of the world's first ex...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News