Korean firms to develop new compounds for potential anti-seizure medication

BIORCHESTRA and SK Biopharmaceuticals, based in South Korea, have forged a partnership to research and develop new ...

January 5, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm GC Cell to expand availability of Immuncell-LC for liver cancer

South Korea-based GC Cell and Indian firm Rivaara Immune have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement, pursuant to...

January 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan opts for drug repurposing to stop dementia

Via drug repositioning, a team of scientists at the Osaka City University in Japan has created a combination of rifampic...

January 1, 2022 | Saturday | News
Australia identifies drivers of kidney disease

For the first time, researchers from Australian National University have identified a gene which shows the kidney has it...

December 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong establishes Centre for Chinese Herbal Medicine Drug Development

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has established the Centre for Chinese Herbal Medicine Drug Development (CDD), which...

December 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia forms world-first consortium to fight global blindness

Australian leaders in corneal bioengineering have collaborated to form BIENCO, a consortium to develop bioengineered eye...

December 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Nasal spray to fight COVID-19 heads to clinical trial in Australia

An at-home nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 will be put to the test by Melbourne biomedical researchers, as the Univer...

December 24, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia links walking style with ‘future osteoarthritis’

The way people move and unconsciously place pressure on certain joints when walking could play a role in future onset an...

December 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
New Zealand confirms skin infections as cause of rheumatic fever

Researchers at University of Otago in New Zealand have made a major breakthrough in further understanding acute rheumati...

December 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
One antibody to neutralise both Zika & Dengue viruses in different ways: Singapore study

A research team from the Department of Biological Sciences and the Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singa...

December 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia works on retinal immune cells for preventing diabetes-related vision loss

New research could form the basis for developing life-changing therapies that limit the impact of diabetic eye disease, ...

December 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops algorithm to assess immunotherapy benefit in stomach cancer patients

Recent clinical studies indicate that patients with stomach cancer treated with a combination of immunotherapy and chemo...

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea offers accurate early cancer diagnosis with a drop of blood

Liquid biopsy, which detects tumor DNAs in the blood, is not only more convenient than the biopsy that requires collecti...

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia connects differences in brain structure and genetics with chronic pain

Genetic factors partly explain the link between brain structure and chronic pain, according to Australia's University of...

December 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore explores link between Zika virus infection and birth defects

The Zika virus shunts carbon atoms away from the important glucose metabolism pathway in infected foetuses, leading to a...

December 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia develops copper surface that eliminates bacteria in 2 minutes

The new copper product is the result of a collaborative research project with RMIT University and Australia’s nati...

December 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore identifies new bacteria to better understand infections

  Singapore scientists have identified and named a new species of bacteria, Staphylococcus singaporensis sp.nov, n...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan’s Acura NanoMedicine reduces drug resistance in cancer cells

Taiwanese startup Acura NanoMedicine Inc has announced a groundbreaking nanotech-based solution to reduce instances of d...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News