China translates blood’s hidden gem Neutrophil into new generation anti-cancer therapy

Lung cancer remains the most common cancer in Hong Kong. As a leading cancer killer worldwide, its treatment still needs...

June 14, 2023 | Wednesday | News
 Triggering a collaborative initiative to accelerate biomedical R&D in South East Asia

Researchers in Asia are increasingly evaluating the significance and scope of proteomics in biomolecular discovery effor...

June 9, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
Singapore develops technique to accelerate discovery of new immunotherapies

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) led by Assistant Professor Cheow Lih Feng from the...

June 8, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore discovers novel therapy to counter antibiotic-resistant lung infections

Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-M...

June 6, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore uses AI to accelerate discovery of biomarkers for chronic myeloid leukaemia treatment

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Singapore General Hospital (S...

June 2, 2023 | Friday | News
Hong Kong to establish state-of-the-art facility for advanced cell therapies

The Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP, a public corporation set up by the Hong Kong Government) ...

May 29, 2023 | Monday | News
Australian startup Cyteph secures $1.5 M for brain cancer immunotherapy trial

Cyteph, a spin-out biotechnology company from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia, has been awa...

May 30, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea-US partnership to co-develop therapy for Parkinson's Disease

South Korean firms HanAll Biopharma and Daewoong Pharmaceutical have entered into a co-development agreement with N...

May 26, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia to create biobank of different phages for killing superbugs

In a modern take on the Victorian gold rush, a Monash University-led project is successfully ‘bioprospecting&rsquo...

May 25, 2023 | Thursday | News
China suggests use of non-invasive biomarkers for colorectal cancer screening

The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) led a team of a dozen international...

May 11, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore's CytoMed Therapeutics announces collaboration with MD Anderson Cancer Center in US

Singapore based startup CytoMed Therapeutics, spun off from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), ha...

May 11, 2023 | Thursday | News
Junshi Biosciences, Dr. Reddy’s to develop and commercialise oncology drug in 21 countries

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. has collaborated with Indian pharmaceutical firm Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories to devel...

May 8, 2023 | Monday | News
New Zealand runs trial to fix gut problems in autistic people

A ground-breaking clinical trial involving microbiome transfer to alleviate gut problems in Autistic people is starting ...

May 8, 2023 | Monday | News
Hong Kong researchers suggest HCMV detection in urine as routine test for HIV-1 patients

A Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) collaborative research team has shown that urine tests for human cytomegalovirus (...

May 5, 2023 | Friday | News
“As Precision Medicine is critical, we cannot think about one size fits all”

Can you explain what GPCR heteromers are and why they are a promising target for cancer therapeutics? Before I answer y...

May 3, 2023 | Wednesday | Opinion
How Radiopharmaceuticals Are Transforming Cancer Treatment

A key goal for any innovative cancer treatment is the ability to deliver an anti-cancer agent directly to the tumour and...

May 3, 2023 | Wednesday | Analysis
MicrofluidX and Immatics working together on automated end-to-end bioprocessing for TCR-T therapies

 MicrofluidX, a UK-based provider of next generation bioreactors for cell biology research and cell therapy manufac...

May 2, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Importance of HPV Testing and Genotyping in Cervical Cancer Prevention

Dr. Mohd Azizuddin bin Mohd Yussof, CT (IAC), Bsc. (Biomedical), MHealthSc. (Biomedical), PhD (Pathology) is the Directo...

May 2, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Study in Singapore debunks prevalence of microbiomes in blood of healthy humans

Scientists from A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have ascertained that there is no stable microbial co...

May 1, 2023 | Monday | News
Korean firms push development of mRNA-based cancer therapeutics

South Korea-based firms Samyang Holdings and LG Chem have announced their recent execution of strategic partnership agre...

April 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia develops ground-breaking heart failure treatment using 3D-printed tissue

Researchers from The University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia have demonstrated that 3D bioprinted heart tissues...

April 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Flexible gold sensor by Australia unlocks new generation of medical implants

A thin, flexible gold sensor engineered at The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia has the potential to unlock the ...

April 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore introduces research initiatives to revolutionise diagnostic capabilities

Three research teams from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) – MIT’s r...

April 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australian scientists grow brain tissue in lab to treat rare diseases

Brain tissue grown in a laboratory by University of Queensland (UQ) researchers in Australia will be used to test a trea...

April 17, 2023 | Monday | News
US-Singapore partnership to develop tools for precision therapeutics of liver disease

US-based Virginia Commonwealth University's Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health has announc...

April 14, 2023 | Friday | News
Scientists in Australia build human lungs in dish to test medicines

Scientists at the University of Sydney, Australia with collaborators from Australia, South Korea and China. have devel...

April 14, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore explores new targeted therapies for cancer treatment

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately one in six deaths, with metastatic ...

April 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Research boost of $5.7 M for chronic disease prevention in Asia Pacific

$5.7 million in research grants has been awarded to four projects aiming to foster research partnerships between institu...

April 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Specialised Therapeutics to commercialise new cancer therapy in Australia and Southeast Asia

Singapore-headquartered biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Asia (ST) will partner with CTTQ-Akeso (Shang...

April 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Thailand suggests blood as new alternative medicine for pain relief

Chula Medicine researchers in Thailand have successfully published an article on the injection of patient's own platelet...

April 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand takes significant step in fight against drug resistance in TB

University of Otago researchers in New Zealand have discovered new ways to treat antibiotic-resistant strains of tubercu...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Singapore study suggests much shortened treatment period for TB patients

Tuberculosis (TB) patients can look forward to a much-shortened treatment period, compared to the current six-month trea...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Australia injects $12 M more into world-first childhood diabetes study

JDRF Australia and funding partner The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust have announced a combined additio...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Thailand makes progress in CAR T-Cell Therapy Innovation

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and Nagoya University, Japan, in their collaboration to develop an immunotherapy met...

April 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea-Singapore research offers simultaneous diagnosis and treatment of cancer

A research team from South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) collaborated with researche...

April 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Sepsis study in Australia to power new antibiotic discoveries

Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have led a national study on the four main bacteria that cause sep...

April 4, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Funding boost for world-first cell transplantation research for nervous system repair in Australia

Australia-based Griffith University’s world-first study into cell transplantation to repair injuries to the nervou...

March 31, 2023 | Friday | News
Novel drug from New Zealand offers hope for heart failure patients

A novel drug is showing promise for alleviating heart failure, a common condition associated with sleep apnoea and a red...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australian study of ENZAMET shows promise as prostate cancer treatment

A new drug combination for men with advanced prostate cancer has shown sustained increase in survival rates. The result...

March 29, 2023 | Wednesday | News
New funding by NZ to boost RNA research into vaccines & healthcare

Victoria University of Wellington and University of Auckland, in New Zealand (NZ) have been named as co-hosts of a ...

March 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Duke-NUS in Singapore partners with Swedish biotech startup Alder Therapeutics

In a boost to regenerative therapies for damaged hearts and eyes, Duke-NUS in Singapore has licensed two laminin-related...

March 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia injects $3M funding for world-first drug trial for poorly controlled epilepsy

Epilepsy affects over 150,000 Australians, and 50 million globally, with one-third struggling to control their condition...

March 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Singapore finds new way to clear brain waste linked to Alzheimer's disease

A newly discovered “energy switch” in the immune cells of the brain may lead to the development of drugs for...

March 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia uses smart nanotechnology for more accurate delivery of insulin

More efficient and longer lasting glucose-responsive insulin that eliminates the need for people with type 1 diabetes to...

March 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
World’s first study to prove myopia prevention in children by low-concentration atropine drops

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) conducted a randomised, placebo-con...

March 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Breakthrough neurological drug comes from New Zealand to treat Rett Syndrome

A molecule discovered by Distinguished Professor Dame Margaret Brimble of the University of Auckland, New Zealand is the...

March 13, 2023 | Monday | News
Monash University in Australia leads $15M mitochondrial donation clinical trial

Around 50 Australian children are born every year with devastating mitochondrial disease, with an expected lifespan of o...

March 13, 2023 | Monday | News
Singapore develops novel therapy for treating vancomycin-resistant bacterial infections

Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for...

March 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
"We will enable researchers in Singapore to conduct homegrown large-scale population health studies"

  Please share more details about the technology that has been transferred by Olink to NUS? What is so unique...

March 7, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore accelerates precision medicine through next-generation proteomics

The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has launched the NUS Medi...

March 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan discovers potential treatment of autoimmune diseases

Scientists in Japan have revealed a chemical compound that could be used for the treatment of various autoimmune disease...

March 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
European Union approves first gene therapy for hemophilia B

Australian biotechnology leader CSL has announced that the European Commission has granted conditional marketing authori...

February 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean firms to develop novel microbiome treatment for Parkinson's disease

South Korean startup LISCure Biosciences Inc. has announced a multi-year strategic R&D collaboration with Celltrion ...

February 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
New Zealand approves globally regarded soft-tissue sarcoma therapy

Singapore-headquartered biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics (ST) has announced that its portfolio therapy...

February 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia discovers receptor that blocks COVID-19 infection

Australia's University of Sydney scientists have discovered a protein in the lung that blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection and f...

February 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan develops method to design new peptide therapeutics for combating antibiotic resistance

Applications of new molecules as drugs are expected to be effective in treating diseases that are difficult to cure with...

February 13, 2023 | Monday | News
“We need to foster risky projects that can have large rewards”

What is Anticancer Bioscience’s  competitive edge and what is unique about the pipeline you are developing?&n...

February 7, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore is beginning to see benefits of investing in technological aspect of cancer treatment

Medicine and technology have made tremendous strides toward defeating one of the deadliest diseases of the world, despit...

February 6, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore explores regenerative therapy to restore impaired kidney function

In a world first, scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) and colleagues in ...

February 3, 2023 | Friday | News
New trial in Australia uses cannabis for spinal cord injury induced chronic pain

Scientists at the University of Sydney, Australia have been awarded $1.7 million from New South Wales Ministry ...

January 30, 2023 | Monday | News
Researchers at Chula Medicine in Thailand explain detection of latent dementia

According to the scientists at Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Center, Faculty of Medicine,&n...

January 30, 2023 | Monday | News
Scientists in New Zealand identify drug that could extend lifespan

The age-old quest for immortality has taken a step forward with the results of a New Zealand study recently published by...

January 27, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea's GenKOre inks $300 M deal with US to develop in vivo gene-editing therapies

GenKOre, Inc., a Korea-based biotech company with hypercompact CRISPR-Cas tools, has entered into a ...

January 26, 2023 | Thursday | News
China-based startup ReLive Biotechnologies strengthens presence in regenerative therapy market

ReLive Biotechnologies, founded in 2021, has completed the acquisition of all operating assets of Germany-listed bi...

January 26, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australian biotech startup Ferronova secures A$11 M to advance nanotech image-guided cancer therapy

Ferronova has secured a further A$11 million to progress the company's nanoparticle platform to assist surgeon...

January 23, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Kaneka expands GMP manufacturing capacity for mRNA to Europe

Tokyo Headquarterd Kaneka Corporation is set to increase its GMP manufacturing capacity for mRNA in ...

January 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong to emerge as technology hub for microbiome industry in APAC region

The Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine), Microbiota I-Center (MagIC), and Hong Kong...

January 18, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia turns back the clock on damaged heart tissue

After a heart attack, the shock of the event leaves behind a trail of damaged heart muscle, which becomes a scar over ti...

January 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
"Global investors can leverage our deep immunomics platform to develop TCR Cell therapies for solid tumours"

How crucial is the adaptation of next-generation TCR cell therapies for diagnostic and prophylactic purposes? TCR cell ...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
Australia's Monash University inks research collaboration with Japan-based Ono Pharma

An option and research collaboration agreement has been established between Australia's Monash University and Japan-base...

January 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Malaysian Genomics explores R&D collaboration with SIRIM

Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Berhad , a leading genomics and biopharmaceutical specialist,  has announced a s...

January 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
First made-in-Singapore antibody-drug conjugate to enter clinical trials

Singapore’s drug discovery efforts have reached a new milestone as EBC-129, the first made-in-Singapore antibody-d...

January 9, 2023 | Monday | News
“We are seeing activity within biotherapeutics market in Southeast Asia”

With biomarkers and biotherapeutics gaining significant attention in 2022, BioSpectrum spoke in detail with Jason Neo (R...

January 6, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
US explores application of 3D bioprinting to create eye tissue

Scientists are now using patient stem cells and 3D bioprinting to produce eye tissue that will advance understanding of ...

December 26, 2022 | Monday | News
Australian first research trial to explore use of psychedelics for alcohol use disorder

Researchers at the University of Sydney are embarking on an Australian first research trial into the use of psychedeli...

December 22, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore identifies new therapeutic target for treating diabetic eye disease

Singapore researchers have discovered a novel therapeutic target named ADAM10 that could be used to treat patients ...

December 23, 2022 | Friday | News
Researchers at Australia & Korea investigate effect of COVID-19 virus on vision

A study, co-led by Australia-based Griffith University’s Menzies Health Institute and South Korea’s Center f...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore identifies predictive blood biomarker for cognitive impairment and dementia

A recent study by a team comprising researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the National Univers...

December 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong develops new aptamer drug for bone anabolic therapies

A research team led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has identified a molecular target for bone amabolic therapies...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Japanese firm Eisai partners with Washington University for treatment of neuro diseases

Eisai and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have entered into a comprehensive research collaboration...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Trial of ultrasound treatment for Alzheimer’s underway in Australia

A pioneering treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, developed at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia, is be...

December 13, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore identifies gene that controls scarring in damaged hearts

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have identified a gene that controls the behaviour of a specific type...

December 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Hong Kong develops multifunctional nanoparticle for diagnosis & treatment of glioma

A Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) collaborative research team, along with researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic ...

November 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Integrated stem cell solutions to combat rising degenerative diseases amongst Malaysians

According to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), population with age 60 and above is increasing yearly and Mal...

November 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea inks MoU with US to establish precision medicine research platform

Seoul National University (SNU) Bundang Hospital Biomedical Research Institute has concluded a Memorandum of Understandi...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
GSK invests S$44 M in manufacturing facility at Singapore for cancer treatment

The global biopharma company GSK plc has launched a new, S$44 million high potency facility (HPF) in its strategic New P...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | Company results
Australia announces world first regulatory approval for donor derived microbiome drug

Australian startup BiomeBank has announced the first regulatory approval for a donor derived microbiome drug product wor...

November 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
NZ-based startup develops eye drops to treat keratoconus

A new University of Auckland spin-out company, TheiaNova, is working to introduce a groundbreaking, non-invasive treatme...

November 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
I Peace partners with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Founded in 2015 by Koji Tanabe, a graduate of Professor Shinya Yamanaka's laboratory at Kyoto Univer...

November 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia announces world-first brain cancer clinical trials

A world-first clinical trial platform launching in Melbourne is set to transform research into new therapies for brain c...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
“Accelerated ageing is associated with reduced diversification of the gut microbiome that further increases the risk of developing disease”

How would you describe your primary mission and vision of the Centre for Microbiome Medicine?  Microbiome is the l...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | Opinion
JW Therapeutics accelerates R&D of T cell-based immunotherapies in China

JW Therapeutics and 2seventy bio have announced a strategic alliance to establish a translational and clinical cell ther...

October 27, 2022 | Thursday | News
NZ brain scientist wins research medal

The winner of this year's pre-eminent research award in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Professor Michael (M...

October 21, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore manipulates stress response in cells to help slow down ageing

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore scientists have found that a stress response in cells, when ‘swit...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Etana unveils biopharmaceutical factory in Indonesia

PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) on 7 October, 2022, inaugurated a biopharmaceutical factory located...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea's LG Chem to acquire AVEO Oncology for $566 M

South Korean chemical company LG Chem has announced a definitive agreement with AVEO Oncology in which LG Chem will...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore identifies new cell population in Alzheimer's disease

An immunity research study has found that the previously identified disease-associated microglia (DAM) population d...

October 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia provides $700k to fund new research on women’s fertility

The Australian government is providing almost $700,000 to fund new research investigating the impact of endometriosis on...

October 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Researchers in Korea study new set of biomarkers for diabetes, obesity treatment

According to International Diabetes Federation, approximately 537 million adults (20-79 years) are living with diabetes ...

October 14, 2022 | Friday | News
AdAlta and GPCR Therapeutics collaborate on novel cancer therapeutics

Australia based AdAlta Limited, the clinical stage drug discovery company and South Korea based GPCR Therapeutics Inc, a...

October 13, 2022 | Thursday | News

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