Cerba Research, ACT Genomics bring precision medicine offering to Asia

Belgium-based Cerba Research, owned by Cerba HealthCare, has joined forces with ACT Genomics under a joint venture model...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia builds largest collections of living tumours from prostate cancer patients

Researchers at Monash University, Australia have established one of the world’s largest collections of living tumo...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China develops new real-time RT-PCR assays to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants

With the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing number of viral variants are being identified, which poses a...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
French biotech startup HCS Pharma enters research collaboration in Taiwan

France-based biotech startup HCS Pharma is entering into incubation at the prestigious NHRI (National Health Research In...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
Israel to launch first synthetic biology applied R&D infrastructure

On Aug 15th, the Israel Innovation Authority announced funding of the first synthetic biological R&D infrastruc...

August 18, 2021 | Wednesday | News
BioAgilytix to purchase Australia-based 360biolabs®

BioAgilytix Labs, LLC, a leading global contract research laboratory focused on supporting its pharmaceutical and biotec...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
UK Intellectual Patent Office (UK IPO) grants 3rd patent to RevoluGen NAIP technology

The UK genomic tools developer, RevoluGen Ltd. announced that its divisional method patent has been granted by the UK In...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
BD and CerTest Biotec to commercialize SARS-CoV-2 variants molecular test kit in Europe

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, and CerTest Biotec announced the CE mar...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore scientists use AI to extract RNA modifications and functional variations

A team of researchers from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institut...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
GenScript partners Allozymes to provide smart libraries for precision protein engineering

GenScript Biotech Corporation has collaborated with Allozymes, a synthetic biology company transforming ingred...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Chinese startups accelerate innovative drugs R&D for novel coronavirus

China-based startups Insilico Medicine and Westlake Pharma have announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop inn...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia furthers research and scientific understanding into Nipah virus

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), based in Norway, has partnered with Universiti Malaya (UM), ...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
Germany's Exyte Empowers the Biopharmaceutical Industry in China

Exyte has successfully completed the construction of the first ExyCell® facility in China, the CliniMACS C...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore launches cPassâ„¢ Surrogate Virus Neutralisation Test (sVNT) kit

Singapore has launched a novel serological test "cPass™, or the surrogate virus neutralization test to detect the ...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
NZ pledges more openness on use of animals in research

The University of Auckland has signed up to a New Zealand (NZ) agreement pledging openness on the use of animals in rese...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japanese startup OriCiro raises ¥1 B to advance cell-free DNA technology

Japan-based startup OriCiro Genomics has announced that it has raised ¥800 million in Series B financing led by The&...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China emphasizes on self-replicating, conventional mRNA therapeutics and vaccines

China-based Junshi Biosciences has established a joint venture with Immorna to develop and commercialize new drugs for t...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Lunit raises $26M to reshape precision oncology landscape

Lunit, a South Korea-based startup in artificial intelligence (AI) powered cancer solutions, has announced a strategic i...

July 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Researchers call for improved national coordination of Australian COVID-19 trials

A study looking at the landscape of COVID-19 research in Australia shows an impressive rapid response in clinical trials...

July 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's GHIT Fund invests 97.4M yen in drug discovery project for TB

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, in Japan, has announced a total of approximately 97.4 million ...

July 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
China's Peking University releases journal in health data science

A new open-access English-language journal, Health Data Science, hosted by China-based Peking University and undertaken ...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Experts create world's largest browsable resource linking genetic variants to human health

Access to the world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human health and ...

July 9, 2021 | Friday | News
Academic Medicine Innovation Institute opens in Singapore

Duke-NUS and SingHealth have announced the establishment of the Academic Medicine Innovation Institute (AMII). The new I...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Mobile Gene officially enters the European precision medicine market

Hong Kong-based Mobile  Gene Biotechnology Co., Ltd. has recently completed the acquisition of MC Diagnos...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
SE Asia's Austrianova secures significant investment from Japan's Real Tech Fund

Austrianova (the SG Austria group, Austrianova Singapore and Austrianova Thailand) announced that Real Tech Fund (m...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News