Singapore explores immunotherapy for COVID-19 treatment

The engineering of specific virus-targeting receptors onto a patient’s own immune cells is now being explored by s...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Entrepreneurship flourishes amid pandemic in Singapore

Singapore based early-stage VC Antler has received over 1500 applications from 100 countries in barely two weeks since i...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia starts new drug trial to treat COVID-19

The trial, led by Associate Professor Steven Tong, Infectious Diseases clinician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) i...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
First anti-cancer microbiome therapeutic receives FDA IND clearance in Asia

Genome & Company, a biotechnology company developing innovative therapeutics in immune-oncology, announced on 20 Apr...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Seegene exports 10M COVID-19 diagnostic tests to 60 countries

South Korea based Seegene, the leading multiplex diagnostic assay developer, has announced that the company has exported...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia uses anti-microbial copper to beat COVID-19

Australian company SPEE3D has successfully developed and tested a fast and affordable way to 3D print anti-microbial cop...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore approves TaqPath COVID-19 combo kit

The Applied Biosystems™ TaqPath™ COVID-19 Combo Kit has received Provisional Authorisation from the Health S...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's NHRI develops a prototype COVID-19 rapid diagnostic kit

The National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan announced on 2 April 2020 that it has successfully develop...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Taiwan-Denmark develop rapid test kit for COVID-19

Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan has announced that a joint effort of Taiwan-Denmark startup BluSense D...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan develops rapid coronavirus test kit

Taiwan researchers at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have developed a new nucleic acid test kit to dete...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
NTU builds disinfection robot to tackle COVID-19 outbreak

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a semi-autonomous ...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Study reveals importance of mitochondrial small proteins in energy production

A newly-discovered small protein in mitochondria is essential for energy production, report Duke-NUS researchers and the...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Global consortium accelerates drug development for COVID-19

A cross-border initiative led by the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Dr. Nir London has brought together a wide ra...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Vela's COVID-19 test receives provisional authorisation from HSA

  Vela Diagnostics has announced that the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test has received provisional authori...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia to test COVID-19 vaccine

The first COVID-19 vaccine to be tested outside of the USA, and only the third vaccine clinical trial in the world,...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
MedGenome, SGRF predict COVID-19 susceptibility

A group of Indian and US researchers from MedGenome and SciGenom Research Foundation (SGRF) collaborated to analyze DNA ...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia pitches $2M additional funds for COVID-19 research

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia will provide an additional $2 million of funding f...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
China to set up joint lab for COVID-19 treatment

Huami has announced a collaboration with China National Clinical Research Center of Respiratory Disease (NCRCRD) and Gua...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan identifies potential COVID-19 inhibitors

Taiwan's Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan announced that it has screened out protease inhibitors of the COVID-19 corona...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia to use intravenous zinc in COVID-19 fight

A world-first trial will see researchers from Australia's Austin Health and the University of Melbourne, use i...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda and CSL Behring to Develop Potential COVID-19 Hyperimmune Therapy

Takeda and CSL Behring, a provider of plasma-derived and recombinant therapies based in King of Prussia, PA, on 6 April ...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Korean firm invests $2M in SuperTrans Medical

Israel based SuperTrans Medical, a privately-owned biopharmaceutical company that initially focused on the development o...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New AcroMetrix Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) RNA Control (RUO)

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of the Thermo Scientific...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan finds key antibodies in COVID-19 patients

A Taiwanese research team has produced 25 human monoclonal antibodies based on antibody gene segments from three patient...

April 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore uncovers cancer-causing hereditary mutation in Asians

Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News