Singapore uses AI to find best combination therapies for COVID-19

Image Caption: (From left) Professor Dean Ho, Associate Professor Edward Chow, and Dr Agata Blasiak A team of rese...

December 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
GHIT invests 230 M Yen for developing malaria and chagas disease drugs

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund in Japan has announced a total of approximately 230 million yen ($2....

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan develops way to rapidly measure eye lens opacity

Japan's Kyushu University international team of researchers has developed a new system through which objective...

December 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Korea discovers key indicators for Alzheimer's disease

Korean researchers at the Center for Cognition and Sociality, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Duke-NUS expert joins Lancet COVID-19 commission taskforce

Nearly a year since the world first learned of the novel coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, many questions remain about...

November 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan detects repetitive DNA sequence that causes health risks

A new synthetic probe offers a safe and straightforward approach for visualizing chromosome tips in living cells. The pr...

November 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia emphasizes on sustained COVID-19 immunity for vaccine effectiveness

Researchers of Monash University, Australia have recently revealed for the first time that people who have been infected...

November 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
NZ study links mitochondrial targeted antioxidant with protecting genomic DNA

New Zealand's researchers discovered that healthy male participants who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targe...

November 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Takara Belmont develops new hair care system

Takara Belmont Corporation (Takara Belmont), based out in Japan, has recently developed a new technology for analyzing h...

November 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore receives grants to research healthy ageing

In the first round of the competition, the Catalyst Phase of the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge ...

November 13, 2020 | Friday | News
Fujitsu, TMDU leverage world's fastest supercomputer to perform cancer gene network analysis

Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited have recently completed, in less than a day,...

November 10, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Cytiva moves ahead to bolster China's biotech industry

Cytiva, formerly GE Healthcare Life Sciences, has entered four agreements during its debut at the Third China Internatio...

November 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Japanese firm develops urethane microfoam film for cell culture

Japan based Toyoda Gosei has developed a urethane microfoam film for cell culture, using the knowledge of urethane mater...

November 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Hong Kong invents novel MRI contrast agent for diagnosing Alzheimer's

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) scientists have recently invented a novel contrast agent for mag...

November 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan discovers link between muscle aging and mortality

Using genetic modified mouse models, researchers at the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan have shown ...

November 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
PHCNA, On-chip bring world's first damage-free microfluidic chip cell sorter

PHC Corporation of North America (hereafter PHCNA) has announced a new partnership with On-chip Biotechnologies (USA) Co...

October 28, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novo Nordisk procures Chugai's Ab engineering technologies

Japanese firm Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that it has entered into a license agreement for worldwide non-exclu...

October 26, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore develops mini-brains to help robots recognise pain and to self-repair

Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) h...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia identifies genetic risk factors for prostate cancer

Monash University’s Precision Medicine research group has discovered multiple new genetic risk factors that make m...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore digitally optimizes culture conditions for cell therapy

Cellular therapy is a powerful strategy to produce patient-specific, personalized cells to treat many diseases, includin...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Research on thirst wins 2020 Eppendorf & Science prize

The American scientist Christopher Zimmerman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in Prin...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Nagase increases rare amino acid productivity using Smart Cell technology

The Nagase R&D Center, the research and development arm of NAGASE & CO., LTD. based in Tokyo, has been deve...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore identifies pivotal fetal-like reprogramming of tumour ecosystem

A team of researchers and clinician-scientists from A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Singapore Immuno...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hepatitis C virus discovery gets Nobel Prize 2020 in Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medic...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News