Convalescent plasma doesn’t help seriously ill COVID-19 patients: Canadian study

A major study has found that convalescent plasma does not reduce the risk of intubation or death for COVID-19 patients. ...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia invests $5M to find new antibody treatment for COVID-19

The Australian government is providing $5 million to researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Resea...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ to develop ‘electroceutical’ for treating heart diseases

Researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand (NZ) have been awarded over $1 million by MBIE’s Endeavou...

September 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Malaysia explores use of nanoparticles for effective cancer drug delivery

Traditional cancer therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation methods may have incomplete eradication of canc...

September 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore brings therapies that stimulate healing in chronic wounds

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), the Skin Research Institute of Singapore (S...

September 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia to develop non-opioid painkillers for treating chronic pain

Australia's Monash University researchers have made a breakthrough discovery that could pave the way for the development...

September 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong finds strong link between air quality and neurological disorders

A comprehensive, systematic meta-analysis conducted by scientists at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) found ...

September 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers novel way to study progression of degenerative brain diseases

Tiny brains-in-a-dish that mimic the major pathological features of Parkinson’s disease have been made for the fir...

September 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea offers osteoarthritis treatment by once-a-year injection

A group of researchers at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Shinpoong Pharmaceutical, in Sou...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | News
“With an array of partners, we are tackling some of the biggest unmet needs in mental health diseases”

What unique initiatives are being taken by the company to connect microbiome with human health? Which are the major ther...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Hong Kong demonstrates 2.5-fold increase in child myopia during pandemic

A recent study by The Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) showed that the unprecede...

September 3, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore builds 3D model to study cardiovascular diseases

A Singapore team of scientists and clinicians from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Tan T...

September 3, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore's rapid T-cell test tracks immune response to COVID-19

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, together with collaborators from the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia conducts new research on brain and spinal cord repair

A new research from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University has identified novel cell...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea brings new insights to improve understanding of rare diseases

Genomic scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have revealed new insights in...

September 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan suggests DNA deletion to treat mitochondrial diseases

Mutant DNA sequences inside cellular mitochondria can be eliminated using a bespoke chemical compound. The approach, dev...

August 30, 2021 | Monday | News
Quadpill for blood pressure effective than monotherapy: Australian study

The multi-centre, Australian clinical trial of a potential future ‘quadpill’ dose of four medications, terme...

August 30, 2021 | Monday | News
Chinese Bio-pharma firm to authorize recombinant arthritis biosimilar drug in Singapore

Mabwell (Shanghai) Bioscience Co. Ltd and Singapore's FEGO Biotech Pte Ltd have jointly entered into a co...

August 27, 2021 | Friday | News