Hong Kong government provides $3M for Sydney health hub

A global collaboration to apply data science and artificial-intelligence (AI) methods to solve intractable problems in p...

November 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia discovers new solution to fight chronic middle ear infections

Bacteria found in children’s upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading...

November 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Onlab Bio Dementia calls for Japanese and global startups

Eisai has launched the “Open Network Lab BioHealth Dementia Innovation Challenge (Onlab Bio Dementia)”, a co...

November 8, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore suggests new treatment option for aggressive forms of breast cancer

Researchers from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore have discovered that combining one of the most wid...

November 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's GHIT Fund invests $6.6M in new partnerships for life-saving drugs

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund in Japan has announced a total of approximately 750 million yen...

November 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea develops microbot therapeutics delivery system for oesophageal disorders

A group of scientists at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Kyungpook National Universit...

November 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia announces funding worth $239M for 248 medical research projects

248 innovative research projects will receive a share of $239 million from the Morrison Government to help advance our u...

November 5, 2021 | Friday | News
New strategy shot in the arm for medical innovation at Australia

Western Australia has launched its first-ever Health and Medical Life Sciences Industry Strategy, as announced by the St...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
South Korea creates artificial intestinal model to develop new drugs

A research team at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has recently developed an in...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore assembles world’s largest and highest-resolution atlas of gastric cancer

Scientists in Singapore have assembled the world’s largest and highest-resolution atlas of gastric cancer, a leadi...

November 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
US-China ink gene therapy research agreement for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading China-based global rare disease-focused biopharmaceutical company has entered...

November 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia uses ‘Live’ brain models to hunt for Alzheimer’s treatment

Studying tiny ‘live’ models of the human brain has helped researchers understand its ageing and find a key t...

November 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia develops bionic technology to assist people with nerve damage

A shoe insole using bionic technology to help people with nerve damage maintain their balance has been designed by Unive...

October 29, 2021 | Friday | News
Clinical trial for generalised anxiety disorder receives ethics approval in Australia

Monash University in Australia has obtained ethics approval for a world-first clinical trial investigating psilocybin-as...

October 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
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
Singapore-US to develop cellular therapeutics for age-related diseases

RxCell, a US-based biotechnology company focused on therapeutic applications of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), t...

October 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Twist Alliance Pan-Cancer Methylation Panel to enter global cancer market

The Twist Alliance Pan-Cancer Methylation Panel (Pan-Cancer Panel), a solution for pan-cancer study including DNA methyl...

October 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
India explores biomolecular relationships among COVID-19, ageing, and diabetes

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal have recently published a review of ...

October 11, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia launches new program for way forward after dementia diagnosis

An innovative new program launched on 11 October aims to assist the estimated 60,000 Australians diagnosed with dement...

October 11, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ discovers first brain marker for anxiety disorder

A University of Otago researcher has discovered a brain signal that will help improve the diagnosis and treatment of anx...

October 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia launches new projects to combat brain injury in sports

The Australian government will boost funding to improve research and prevention of brain injuries and concussion for Aus...

October 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Taiwan investigates presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has announced that the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) will c...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Low cost tests to help China's battle to identify COPD sufferers

Researchers working with primary care patients in China have discovered that a simple questionnaire and airflow measurem...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong invents sensor for rapid & low-cost screening of drug-resistant bacteria

A research team led by scientists at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has developed a novel cell sensor with a b...

October 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Fujifilm promotes industrial application of iPS cell-derived regenerative medicine

Japan-based FUJIFILM Corporation has reached agreement on core terms with Australian regenerative medicine venture Cynat...

October 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Marvels of gene-edited meds unleashed

There are three commonly acknowledged gene editing technologies, namely, Zinc Fingers, Transcription Activator-Like Effe...

October 1, 2021 | Friday | Analysis
Australia targets key protein to fight inflammatory diseases

For the first time, researchers have identified key molecules within the immune system that may help fight the inflammat...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ targets right atrium to fix irregularly beating hearts

A team of researchers at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) is advancing the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation ...

September 29, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore opens joint lab to understand role of microbes for skin health

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and L’Oréal Singapore have launched a new joint...

September 29, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia injects $90 M to accelerate genomics and cardiovascular research

The Australian government is opening two medical research grant rounds, worth $90 million to help accelerate Australian-...

September 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia plans patient-focused clinical trial for brain cancer

Australians living with the most common and deadliest form of brain cancer will be given new hope thanks to a patient-fo...

September 27, 2021 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca inks deal worth $195 M for RNA-based therapeutics

AstraZeneca has reached an agreement to collaborate with VaxEquity for the discovery, development and commercialisastion...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia identifies potential treatment for obesity and insulin resistance

Australia's Monash University researchers have shown for the first time that mesenteric (gut) lymphatic dysfunction is a...

September 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $6.5 M for improving diagnosis of hepatitis C

To help improve the treatment times of those with hepatitis C, the Australian government will fund a new national point-...

September 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore explores cognitive dysfunction of lupus patients

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tiss...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia pumps-in $4 M for traumatic brain injury research

To help support Australians living with and recovering from a traumatic brain injury, the government has launched the la...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea strengthens position in precision medicine market for liquid biopsy

German firm Molecular Health GmbH will collaborate with South Korean startup EONE-Diagnomics Genome Center (EDGC) to hel...

September 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
China brings new liquid biopsy diagnostic model for early breast cancer detection

Chinese startup AnchorDx, together with renowned experts from a top-tier hospital in China, has developed a diagnos...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan finds molecular code that powers up cancer-fighting immune cells

A synthetic molecular code shows promise towards improving the response of some cancer patients to immunotherapy treatme...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia injects $472 M for health and medical research future

To further support Australia’s world-leading medical researchers, the Morrison Government will invest almost half ...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops software to connect RNA modifications with tumour formation

A team of researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singa...

September 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia brings world-first 3D imaging for melanoma detection

Australians could have skin cancer diagnosed earlier using world-first 3D scanning technology with the launch of the Aus...

September 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
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
Korea develops artificial cancer model as tool for personalised medicine

A research team led by South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Pu...

August 27, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore explores two classes of potential candidates against drug resistant-TB

Scientists from the Experimental Drug Development Centre (EDDC), the national platform for drug discovery and ...

August 27, 2021 | Friday | News
Chinese startups advance drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases

China-based startups Insilico Medicine and 4B Technologies have signed a strategic collaboration agreement in ...

August 27, 2021 | Friday | News
Cerba Research, ACT Genomics bring precision medicine offering to Asia

Belgium-based Cerba Research, owned by Cerba HealthCare, has joined forces with ACT Genomics under a joint venture model...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia builds largest collections of living tumours from prostate cancer patients

Researchers at Monash University, Australia have established one of the world’s largest collections of living tumo...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea lays focus on developing clinically relevant human-scale living organs

A team of researchers at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has developed decellul...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
Australian researchers develops hydrogel gel therapy to treat neurological ailments

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), in collaboration with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience an...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
Domestic pharma firms lead CAR-T therapy trials in China, GlobalData

China’s overall focus within oncology research is increasing at a rapid pace. Moreover, the country recently appro...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | Analysis
First-of-its-kind clinical trial network in Asia to fight drug-resistant infections

Wellcome Trust has provided a grant of S$2.5 million to the National University of Singapore (NUS) to establish the Asia...

August 18, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea develops hybrid hydrogel platform for rheumatoid arthritis treatment

A group of researchers at the Department of Chemistry at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in co...

August 18, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong offers genome-editing strategy to fight Alzheimer’s Disease

An international research team led by scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has dev...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia aims at developing quick test to tackle concussion

Athletes are helping a University of Queensland neuroscientist tackle the problem of concussion in sport head-on with th...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
India develops bio-nanocarrier to effectively treat visceral leishmaniasis

Indian researchers have developed a non-invasive, easy to administer, cost-effective, and patient compliant potential th...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ links chronic lung diseases with heart attacks

People using two different inhalers for common chronic lung diseases are more than 50 per cent more likely to have a hea...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
Taiwan provides new information on pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection

A team of researchers at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology in Taiwan is providing new i...

August 13, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea mimics atherosclerotic coronary artery using 3D-printing

A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has succeeded in mimicking the a...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
China approves GC Pharma's GreenGene F as a therapy to treat Haemophilia A

China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved GC Pharma's GreenGene F (Beroctocog alfa) [Recom...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore discovers small molecule inhibitors for COVID-19

Currently, the only treatment for COVID-19 approved by the US FDA is Remdesivir, but it has to be administered via intra...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China discovers effective weight-loss method

A collaborative study between scientists at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and AntiCancer Inc. ...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
Advanced Instruments to acquire Solentim to expand bioprocess workflows

Advanced Instruments, a leading manufacturer of analytical instruments and services for bioprocessing is set to acquire ...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
Lab-grown beating heart cells vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection: Cambridge study

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge (UK) has used human embryonic stem cells to grow clusters of heart c...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
UK firms to support Indian biotherapeutic companies with antibody development

Fusion Antibodies, pre-clinical antibody discovery, and development experts, and BioTickle, their exclusive distributor ...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia initiates research on Ross River virus

The three-year project, between the University of Newcastle, Australia’s national science agency- Commonwealt...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News

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