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
Singapore develops anti-coagulant drugs from tick parasite

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a series of thrombin inhibitors to b...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia uses closed-loop therapy for diabetes treatment in elders

Closed-loop insulin-delivery could be the key to treating older adults with long-duration type 1 diabetes, according to ...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore reveals why chemotherapy fails for some blood cancer patients

Mutations in a crucial gene are the key reason that chemotherapy fails in some patients with blood cancer, a study by Na...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China to develop clinical innovative solutions driven by data science

OrigiMed has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on strategic collaboration with Janssen (China) Research and Dev...

December 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Standigm, Institut Pasteur Korea team up for AI-based drug discovery research on TB

South Korea-based startup Standigm Inc. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Institut P...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
New study in Singapore provides fundamentals of memory formation

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that the little-known CA2 hippocampal, a small...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
World-first lung cancer screening facility in Australia increases chance of cure

A semi-trailer will be converted into the world’s first mobile lung cancer screening facility to help boost early ...

November 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong sheds light on acute kidney injury treatment in COVID-19 patients

A recent study conducted by the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) has uncovered a...

November 29, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ explores needle-free anaesthetic for skin graft surgery

Researchers at in the Bioinstrumentation Lab at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) in New Zealand have been dev...

November 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan connects hepatitis C treatment with reduction in liver cancer progression

In a new cohort study of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a disease with a ...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore links increasing air pollution to rise of particular lung cancer

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has linked incr...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
China to develop Next-Gen COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group has reached collaboration agreement with the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica ...

November 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops wound infection sensor based on DNA hydrogel

A team of researchers in Singapore has reported a flexible, wireless, and battery-free sensor that provides smartphone-b...

November 22, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea develops micro-needle bandage for cardiac tissue regeneration

A research team at South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has developed a treatment for...

November 19, 2021 | Friday | News