Australia announces funding worth $239M for 248 medical research projects

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Nov, 2021

248 innovative research projects will receive a share of $239 million from the Morrison Government to help advance our u...Read more

New strategy shot in the arm for medical innovation at Australia

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Nov, 2021

Western Australia has launched its first-ever Health and Medical Life Sciences Industry Strategy, as announced by the St...Read more

South Korea creates artificial intestinal model to develop new drugs

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Nov, 2021

A research team at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has recently developed an in...Read more

Singapore assembles world’s largest and highest-resolution atlas of gastric cancer

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Nov, 2021

Scientists in Singapore have assembled the world’s largest and highest-resolution atlas of gastric cancer, a leadi...Read more

US-China ink gene therapy research agreement for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Nov, 2021

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading China-based global rare disease-focused biopharmaceutical company has entered...Read more

Australia uses ‘Live’ brain models to hunt for Alzheimer’s treatment

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Nov, 2021

Studying tiny ‘live’ models of the human brain has helped researchers understand its ageing and find a key t...Read more

Australia develops bionic technology to assist people with nerve damage

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Oct, 2021

A shoe insole using bionic technology to help people with nerve damage maintain their balance has been designed by Unive...Read more

Clinical trial for generalised anxiety disorder receives ethics approval in Australia

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Oct, 2021

Monash University in Australia has obtained ethics approval for a world-first clinical trial investigating psilocybin-as...Read more

Singapore creates device that uses ‘light tweezers’ to trap viruses

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Oct, 2021

A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has created a laser-powered devi...Read more

Japan proposes drug cocktail to stop SARS-CoV-2 infection of stem cells

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Oct, 2021

A team of scientists at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University in Japan, has sho...Read more

Korea builds technique to measure blood flow in brain in 'Real Time'

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Oct, 2021

Cerebral blood flow (CBF), which supplies oxygen and nutrients to our brain, is a crucial indicator of brain health. Inf...Read more

Australia invests $85M to find solutions for major questions in human health

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Oct, 2021

Seventeen multidisciplinary research teams will each receive $5 million in funding from the Australian government to fin...Read more

Australia boosts stem cell research with grants worth $25M

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Oct, 2021

The government is boosting Australian led stem cell research through $25 million in grants, to help find and develop inn...Read more

Korean startup D&D Pharmatech secures $51M ahead of IPO in 2022

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Oct, 2021

D&D Pharmatech Inc., a South Korea-based clinical-stage biotechnology startup focused on development and commerciali...Read more

Combating ageing with pharmacological interventions

Therapeutics |  Opinion | By Dr Yu-Xuan Lu, Ageing Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany | 2 Comment | 19 Oct, 2021

The increasing ageing population represents a remarked worldwide socioeconomic challenge.  Pharmacological interven...Read more

Singapore performs first-in-man trial for vision repair using regenerative therapy

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Oct, 2021

With the advent of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) and embryonic stem cell (ESC) technology, regenerative stem cell...Read more

World's first long-acting herpes treatment trial taking place in US, China

Therapeutics |  News | 95 Comment | 19 Oct, 2021

Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and Cheng Kung University's Department of Microbiology and Immunology have joined...Read more

Australia explores 'cell fitness' for predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Oct, 2021

Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients, according to a University ...Read more