Australia finds antimicrobial resistance making UTIs more deadly

A new study led by Australia’s national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisati...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Rona Therapeutics raises $33 million in Series A

China-based startup Rona Therapeutics announces the successful completion of $33 million Series A financing to advance p...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong highlights significant global incidence of newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes

One of the largest global studies of its kind, led by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medi...

April 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia launches flagship biological storage facility 'Biobanking Victoria'

Monash University has officially launched Australia’s first industry-focused storage facility for biological mater...

April 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Exploring the Possibilities of RNA Therapeutics

The success of the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 has skyrocketed the development of RNA therapies. In 2021, more than 60...

April 2, 2022 | Saturday | News
CHA Medical & Bio Group opens new cell gene biobank facility in Korea

CHA Medical & Bio Group officially began construction of its Cell Gene Biobank (CGB) facility in Pangyo, South Korea...

March 31, 2022 | Thursday | News
Taiwan accepts CANbridge's NDA for Alagille Syndrome

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has accepted the New Dr...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia explores changes in brain under influence of psychedelic drugs

It is well known that ingesting psilocybin (magic mushrooms) will induce profound changes in consciousness and perceptio...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
New Zealand backs Parkinson's disease research with new grant

  A team of researchers- Professor Leigh Hale and Dr Paulo Henrique Silva Pelicioni, of the School of Physiotherap...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Fujifilm buys Shenandoah Biotechnology to strengthen life sciences biz

Japan-based FUJIFILM Corporation has announced that FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in the development ...

March 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $28.1 M to establish new Genomics agency

Through its 10-year Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) plan, the Australian government is helping Australians live long...

March 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore links genetic ancestry with childhood leukaemia treatment success

Researchers from Singapore's NUS Yong Loo Lin School of medicine and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the U...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia suggests new therapy to stabilise plaques associated with heart attack

A novel new therapy has been found to reduce harmful plaque in arteries and change its composition so it is less likely ...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea shows AI tool as novel biomarker for immunotherapy response

Lunit, a South Korea-based startup has announced the publication of its study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO)....

March 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore develops novel method of delivering drugs into human cells

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a novel method of delivering ...

March 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia finds ways to detect nano plastics in human body

In one of the world’s first plastics contamination-controlled laboratories, Australia-based University of Que...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
G-NiiB launches the world’s first anti-viral Gut Microbiome formula in Singapore

GenieBiome (G-NiiB), a biotechnology spin-off of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), announces the launch of G-N...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia to use mRNA technology to research global public health threats

The University of Queensland (UQ), in Australia, has been selected as one of the first launch institutions in the world ...

March 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine focuses on discovery of potential therapeutics for Cystinosis

The MIKADO group, a translational team at the University of Zurich (UZH) focused on generating evidence-driven...

March 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore set to develop antibodies for infectious diseases and cancer treatments

Singapore-based SCG Cell Therapy Pte Ltd (“SCG”), a leading biotechnology company, has signed a collaboratio...

March 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore designs preclinical model to strategise treatment for a genetic kidney disease

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore have designed a treatment strategy for genetic kidney disease ‘...

March 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan uses supercomputer and AI to shed light on drug resistance in cancer treatment

Japan-based Fujitsu and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have announced a new technology that uses artific...

March 7, 2022 | Monday | News
IASO Bio strengthens manufacturing of CAR-T cell therapy products in China

IASO Biotherapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in discovering, developing, and manufacturing i...

March 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher calls for proposals in 'Cancer Molecular Profiling' research

As part of its ongoing commitment to support clinical oncology research, US-based Thermo Fisher Scientific is calling fo...

March 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea-based GI Innovation strengthens focus on next-gen innovative immuno-oncology

GI Innovation, based in South Korea, has signed a biomarker joint research MoU with CellKey, a Glycoprotein biomarker de...

February 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea develops electronic skin that can feel in real time

A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea, in collaboration with the Department...

February 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan proposes framework for conducting ethical research on brain organoids

Researchers from Kobe University and Kyoto University’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASH...

February 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $23 M for preventive health projects

The Australia government is investing $23 million in three Victorian health projects that will help prevent chronic dise...

February 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Hong Kong finds new inflammatory activation pathway in blood vessels after SARS-CoV-2 infection

A study led by The Chinese University of Hong Kong's (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) and the LKS Faculty of Med...

February 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore discovers unique lysin capable of killing deadly multi drug-resistant bacteria

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

February 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan fabricates polymer-DNA gel that could be used in tissue regeneration and robotics

Scientists at Hokkaido University in Japan have made a tuneable, elastic and temperature-sensitive g...

February 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore finds why Alzheimer’s disease females face faster memory decline

A joint study by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and National University of Singapore (NUS) ...

February 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan discovers host immune-dependent novel anti-coronavirus antibody

The National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN), in partnership with Shionogi & Co....

February 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Genetic research in NZ offers hope for preventing Parkinson’s disease

There’s new hope for treating Parkinson’s disease with the publication of groundbreaking genetic research fr...

February 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops method for creating promising new sulphur-based medicines

A key technical challenge in creating new sulphur-based medicines has been overcome by scientists at Nanyang Techno...

February 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Indian startup Bugworks Research secures $18M to advance work in AMR

Indian startup Bugworks Research, with operations in US and Australia, has announced the financing of $18M Ser...

February 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Bridge Biotherapeutics to uncover new druggable sites in oncology, immunology

Bridge Biotherapeutics, a South Korean clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel drugs for inflam...

February 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
US-India collaborate for development, commercialisation of first-in-class bone health drugs

CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, one of the premier drug research institutions in India and Aveta B...

February 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
NZ discovers link between high blood pressure and diabetes

Scientists at the universities of Auckland and Bristol are preparing to test a novel medication on patients with a poten...

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong identifies potential biomarker for early diagnosis of liver cancer

A research team at the Department of Pathology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) in collabo...

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia seeks partners to upscale biotech facility in NSW

New South Wales (NSW) will leverage its world-class cell and gene therapy expertise to establish Australia’s first...

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong examines eye health in school children, finds myopia deepening faster

Two research teams from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) found that not only did the rate of myopia progress...

January 31, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia targets bacteria behind respiratory infections

Researchers in Australia have discovered a way to kill a type of bacteria that causes millions of respiratory infections...

January 31, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia accelerates 'Microbiome Medicine' with new partnership between BiomeBank & Hudson Institute

The translation of research into the development of innovative and life-saving microbial therapies is set to transform i...

January 27, 2022 | Thursday | News
ENDRA Life Sciences expands into China with Shanghai General Hospital partnership

US-based ENDRA Life Sciences Inc. has received Institutional Review Board approval from China’s Shanghai...

January 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops new therapeutic approach to treat metabolic disorders

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new therapeutic approach to o...

January 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Australia discovers new antimicrobial therapeutics to fight superbugs

Researchers from Monash University in Australia have discovered a potential new way to prevent antibiotic resistance and...

January 24, 2022 | Monday | News
Industrial chemical Bisphenol S increases cancer risk: China study

A study led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has revealed that different degrees of exposure to bisphenol S (BPS),...

January 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia to launch first collaborative cardiovascular research accelerator

Federal Minister for Health, Greg Hunt has announced funding for two new Research Centres through the MTPConnect Targete...

January 19, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Singapore finds antibody capable of neutralising major SARS-CoV2 variants of concern

In a study jointly conducted by the Bio-Safety Level 3 (BSL3) Core Facility at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (...

January 18, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong develops anti-virus 3D printing material to rapidly terminate COVID-19

An interdisciplinary research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has successfully developed the worl...

January 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore deepens interest in dengue virus transmission

Software-analysed high-resolution videos have revealed that dengue-infected mosquitos are more attracted to mammals and ...

January 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia uncovers resistance gene in deadly E. coli

Scientists have pinpointed a gene that helps deadly E. coli bacteria evade antibiotics, potentially leading to better tr...

January 14, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore's SCG Cell Therapy acquires technology from A*STAR for novel cancer treatment

Singapore-based SCG Cell Therapy has acquired the rights to human “induced pluripotent stem cell” ...

January 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia leads world-first clinical trial on benefits of losing weight prior to pregnancy

The University of Sydney, Australia is leading the world's largest clinical trial exploring how losing weight prior to p...

January 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong dissects lung carcinoma at single-cell resolution uncovering new mechanism

Tumour formation is a multistep and complex process and the underlying mechanism behind it is still largely unclear. A n...

January 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean firm partners with Sanofi for Parkinson's Disease treatment

ABL Bio, Inc., a South Korea-based clinical-stage biotech developing bispecific antibody technology for immuno-oncology ...

January 12, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Australia discovers new treatments for infectious diseases

  Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) in Australia have disc...

January 11, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan develops cancer therapy using on-site synthesis of anti-cancer drugs

An international research group at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan has successfully treated can...

January 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Rare cancers & rare diseases research receives $63.4M boost in Australia

Research into some of the world’s rarest forms of cancer and disease have received a boost, with the Australian go...

January 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea-based LISCure Biosciences explores treatment for rare liver diseases

LISCure Biosciences Inc., a South Korea-based biotech startup, has executed a research collaboration agreement with US b...

January 7, 2022 | Friday | News
Mental health clinical trials receive funding worth $14.8 M in Australia

Seven clinical trials testing the use of potential breakthrough combination therapies to treat debilitating mental illne...

January 7, 2022 | Friday | News
US-based Allay Therapeutics expands operations in Singapore

Allay Therapeutics, a US-based clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering ultra-sustained analgesic products to tra...

January 7, 2022 | Friday | News
Australia injects $5.5 M for clinical trials to treat low-survival breast cancers

Two clinical trials which could save lives through new therapies to treat breast cancers that have low rates of survival...

January 6, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean firms to develop new compounds for potential anti-seizure medication

BIORCHESTRA and SK Biopharmaceuticals, based in South Korea, have forged a partnership to research and develop new ...

January 5, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm GC Cell to expand availability of Immuncell-LC for liver cancer

South Korea-based GC Cell and Indian firm Rivaara Immune have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement, pursuant to...

January 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan opts for drug repurposing to stop dementia

Via drug repositioning, a team of scientists at the Osaka City University in Japan has created a combination of rifampic...

January 1, 2022 | Saturday | News
Australia identifies drivers of kidney disease

For the first time, researchers from Australian National University have identified a gene which shows the kidney has it...

December 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong establishes Centre for Chinese Herbal Medicine Drug Development

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has established the Centre for Chinese Herbal Medicine Drug Development (CDD), which...

December 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia forms world-first consortium to fight global blindness

Australian leaders in corneal bioengineering have collaborated to form BIENCO, a consortium to develop bioengineered eye...

December 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Nasal spray to fight COVID-19 heads to clinical trial in Australia

An at-home nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 will be put to the test by Melbourne biomedical researchers, as the Univer...

December 24, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia links walking style with ‘future osteoarthritis’

The way people move and unconsciously place pressure on certain joints when walking could play a role in future onset an...

December 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
New Zealand confirms skin infections as cause of rheumatic fever

Researchers at University of Otago in New Zealand have made a major breakthrough in further understanding acute rheumati...

December 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
One antibody to neutralise both Zika & Dengue viruses in different ways: Singapore study

A research team from the Department of Biological Sciences and the Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singa...

December 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia works on retinal immune cells for preventing diabetes-related vision loss

New research could form the basis for developing life-changing therapies that limit the impact of diabetic eye disease, ...

December 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops algorithm to assess immunotherapy benefit in stomach cancer patients

Recent clinical studies indicate that patients with stomach cancer treated with a combination of immunotherapy and chemo...

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea offers accurate early cancer diagnosis with a drop of blood

Liquid biopsy, which detects tumor DNAs in the blood, is not only more convenient than the biopsy that requires collecti...

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia connects differences in brain structure and genetics with chronic pain

Genetic factors partly explain the link between brain structure and chronic pain, according to Australia's University of...

December 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
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
Korea approves 'donepezil patch' for treating Alzheimer’s-type dementia

Icure Pharmaceutical Inc. has announced that its donepezil patch, a treatment of Alzheimer’s-type dementia, r...

November 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Malaysia set to become Hepatitis C treatment hub of Asia

insigHT2021, Malaysia's medical travel market intelligence conference, featured the launch of Malaysia as the Hepatitis ...

November 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Illumina invests $5M into genomics lab in Australia

US-based Illumina, Inc. has announced the opening of a new, fully equipped laboratory to help Australian researchers and...

November 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Emmes & MedGenome join hands to advance Rare Disease research in South Asia

US-based Emmes, a full-service Clinical Research Organization (CRO) dedicated to supporting the advancement of public he...

November 15, 2021 | Monday | News

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