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

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

October 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan proposes drug cocktail to stop SARS-CoV-2 infection of stem cells

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

October 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea builds technique to measure blood flow in brain in 'Real Time'

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

October 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia invests $85M to find solutions for major questions in human health

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

October 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia boosts stem cell research with grants worth $25M

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

October 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korean startup D&D Pharmatech secures $51M ahead of IPO in 2022

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

October 20, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Combating ageing with pharmacological interventions

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

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore performs first-in-man trial for vision repair using regenerative therapy

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

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
World's first long-acting herpes treatment trial taking place in US, China

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

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia explores 'cell fitness' for predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients

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

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
TB research in NZ to make ‘enormous global health impact’

New Zealand's University of Otago researchers are behind a major scientific breakthrough which could lead to elimination...

October 18, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan identifies molecules for building stronger antibodies

A team of researchers at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi) at Kyoto University, Japan&n...

October 15, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore to revolutionise therapeutics for cancer & infectious diseases

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School have partnered with Singapore biotechnology company Xylonix ...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia's Topelia to raises $25M in Series A funding for Antiviral Triple Therapy (ATT)

Topelia Australia, a biotech company established to commercialize a novel ATT treatment for Australians in quarantine, h...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia opens new grant opportunities worth $30M for medical research

The Australian government is investing up to $30 million in health and medical research to help bring ground-breaking di...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
The UK approves umbilical cord lining stem cell therapy by a Singapore firm

Singapore's CellResearch Corporation (CRC) has received an ‘Innovation Passport’ for its stem cell therapy C...

October 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Water pill may be viable to test as Alzheimer’s treatment: NIH study

A commonly available oral diuretic pill approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be a potential candi...

October 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News
International study reveals the future landscape of Breast Cancer treatment

HER2+ metastatic breast cancer (HER2+ mBC) is an aggressive type of breast cancer with poor prognosis. Whilst various ta...

October 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News