China identifies faecal bacterial markers for autism

The Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) reports a ground breaking discove...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea offers new insights into lung damage during COVID-19​

An immunology research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has found that a...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ to establish new communicable diseases research centre

New Zealand (NZ)- based University of Otago’s Global Health Institute and Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
New drug delivers sight for sore eyes in Australia

A potential improved treatment for two of the leading causes of blindness – age and diabetes-related eye problems ...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia lays focus on targeted treatments for triple negative breast cancer

The first award under BioCurate’s new “Proof of Concept” fund has been granted to Australia's Monash B...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Precision biotherapeutics molecules at futuristic regimens: PROTAC & Undruggable Drug Targets

APAC is home to over 60% of the world’s population and the economical benefits of having a biopharma industry in t...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Taiwan links pelvic inflammatory disease with ovarian cancer in Asian women

A team of researchers at the China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan has sought to determine whether pelvic inf...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Australian startup develops nasal spray technology for mental health disorders

A nasal spray technology that enables the delivery of psychedelic and non-psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disor...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia advocates cognitive behavioural therapy for perinatal care

New research from Monash University has found that a non-drug sleep program, using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), ...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
China develops novel 'bacterial gene markers' test for early detection of colon cancer

The faecal immunochemical test (FIT) is commonly used to screen for colorectal cancer but it has low sensitivity (around...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
‘Hard-to-drug targets have become our prime focus’

Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative clinical-stage biotech company with its APAC headquarter in Singapore, is focused ...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | Opinion
Gilead Sciences launches Asia Pacific ALL4LIVER Grant 2021 with focus on hepatitis B

American biopharma firm Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced the launch of the 2021 Gilead Asia Pacific ALL4LIVER Grant, ...

July 28, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Industry-academia partnership in South Korea for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis treatment

Deargen, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery and development startup, has signed an agreement with So...

July 28, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore, US assess risk of vascular inflammation for diabetes patients

A team of international scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Tan Tock Seng Hospi...

July 28, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan uses quantum physics to destroy cancer cells

Scientists at Japan-based Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and colleague...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China uncovers neurodegeneration mechanism of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, causes the death of neurons and leads to shrinking of ...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News
“With three FDA-approved bispecifics across liquid and solid tumours, this feels like a turning point”

In an email interaction with BioSpectrum, EpimAb’s Founder and CEO, Dr Chengbin Wu tells us more about the company...

July 23, 2021 | Friday | Opinion
Australia examines use of hemp extracts to treat anxiety, seizures

Pharmacologists at the University of Sydney in Australia have found tantalising clues as to why low-dose CBD products co...

July 23, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean firm Celltrion developing solution to treat COVID-19 patients at home

Inhalon Biopharma, Inc., a US-based clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing an inhaled "muco-trapping" anti...

July 23, 2021 | Friday | News
Novigenix wins 2021 Felix Burda award in Medicine & Science

Novigenix SA, a leading Swiss biotech that develops and commercializes Immuno-Transcriptomic precision oncology solution...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ lays focus on combined screening of stomach and bowel cancer

Dr Stephen Inns and his team from the University of Otago, in New Zealand (NZ) have secured almost $250,000 from the Hea...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
Quest for permanent correction of underlying genetic defect continues

After years of research, the field of gene therapies is at a tipping point. Recent years have seen immense progress in t...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | Opinion
Terumo Europe and UMCU ink MoU to develop solutions in interventional oncology

Terumo Europe and University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) have announced that they signed a Memorandum of Unders...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan links antihypertensive drug usage with lower risk of dementia

According to a recent study done by researchers in Taiwan, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) may have protective effe...

July 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Cancer: A Growing Concern

Millennials Have Elevated Risks for Some Obesity-Related Cancers   The American Cancer Society led a study that l...

July 20, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
NZ opens door to better treatment of brain dysfunction

University of Otago scientists in New Zealand (NZ) have opened the door to improved treatment of brain dysfunction which...

July 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea develops brain-mimicking interface to study neurological diseases

A research team and collaborators at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has revealed a new...

July 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia launches $1.5M vaccine and immunobiology lab

Australia-based Agilex Biolabs has launched its new $1.5M vaccine and immuno-biology laboratory. The facility, the most ...

July 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan explores complex lipid metabolism networks for studying various diseases

Researchers at Keio University, Japan, describe cutting edge mass spectrometry technology that offers unpreced...

July 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia finds way to stop SARS-CoV-2 replication in infected human cells

Scientists at Australia's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) and Peter MacCallu...

July 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Genetic link between aging brain and brain cancers found by Israeli scientists

Israeli university- Ben-Gurion University of Negev (BGU) scientists have found that a gene activated in glioblastoma, a ...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Servier and Nymirum collaborate to develop RNA-Targeted small molecule therapeutics

Paris-based Servier, a global independent pharmaceutical Group, and Nymirum, a pioneer in RNA-targeted small molecules, ...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hummingbird Bioscience and MD Anderson collaborate to advance innovative immunotherapies

Hummingbird Bioscience, a US and Singapore-based innovative clinical-stage biotech company, and The University of T...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
NZ-based startup Amaroq Therapeutics secures funding to develop cancer treatments

Amaroq Therapeutics, a new biotech start-up spun out of the University of Otago in New Zealand, with one of the world&rs...

July 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan sets COVID-19 drug trials up for success

As scientists continue to search high and low for effective COVID-19 treatments, a new modeling study by Japanese resear...

July 9, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea identifies repurposed drugs for COVID-19 treatment via virtual screening assays

A joint research group from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Institut Pasteur Ko...

July 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ uses genetic and mathematical modelling to understand lung disease

Researchers at the University of Auckland, New Zealand are pioneering a new approach to the understanding of Chronic Obs...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia reveals how immune system reacts to COVID-19 variants

Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early ...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore explores mindfulness-based sleep therapy to treat insomnia

Researchers from the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine found mindfulness-based t...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
S.Korea's Y-Biologics to globalize immuno-oncology therapeutics with French partner

The South Korean biotech company Y-Biologics and the French pharmaceutical group Pierre Fabre have entered int...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Industry-academia collaboration of neuroprotective therapies for glaucoma in China

Arctic Vision, a China-based clinical-stage ophthalmology company focuses on developing innovative therapies for pa...

July 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Scientists propose repurposing anti-malarial drug Mefloquine to fight COVID-19

Japanese scientists are scanning the possibility of using an anti-malarial drug called mefloquine....

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia invests $180 M in ground-breaking medical research projects

The Australian Government is investing $180 million in ground-breaking medical research projects around Australia to imp...

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia's BiomeBank to commercialize world-first microbial therapy across APAC

The company behind Australia’s first facility for the manufacturing of microbial therapies has set its sights on g...

July 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia goes ahead with DNA screening study to identify cancer risk in young adults

A landmark new DNA screening study to identify cancer risk in young adults will go ahead, after Australia's Monash Unive...

July 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore focuses on immunosuppressive drug-resistant anti-cancer T-cells

Lion TCR, a Singapore biotechnology company, has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Duke-NUS Medical...

July 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore to purchase Monoclonal Ab from GSK and Vir Bio to treat COVID-19

GlaxoSmithKline Singapore and Vir Biotechnology on June 30, 2021, announced an agreement with the Government of Singapor...

June 30, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Researchers at NZ,UK bring world-first weight loss device

University of Otago in New Zealand and UK researchers have developed a world-first weight-loss device to help fight the ...

June 29, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Gut microbe secreted molecule linked to formation of new nerve cells in adult brain

The billions of microbes living in your gut could play a key role in supporting the formation of new nerve cells in the ...

June 29, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops malaria test kit that delivers results in 30 mins

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a test kit for ...

June 29, 2021 | Tuesday | News
International experts join Microba Life Sciences inaugural IBD Advisory Panel

Precision microbiome science company, Microba Life Sciences, has appointed three respected key opinion leaders in Inflam...

June 28, 2021 | Monday | News
Takara Bio grants BioNTech a commercial patents license of CAR T-cell Therapy drug

Takara Bio Inc. world leader in biotechnology R&D, announces that it has entered into a License and Supply Agre...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
New antibiotic from Australia to combat bacterial superbugs enters clinical trials

In a critical step towards addressing an urgent unmet medical need due to infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bact...

June 23, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Laser Clinics inks deal with Singapore's Privé Clinic

Laser Clinics has expanded its global network by entering a partnership with Singapore-based Privé Clinic. The ne...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Israel discovers promising target for breast cancer and other cancer therapeutics

The Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN) scientist P...

June 21, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore suggests doxycycline can help prevent complications of 'Long TB'

In pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), the most common form of active TB disease, the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria cause...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim invests in a Singapore firm to progress gene therapy for cardiomyopathy

Boehringer Ingelheim has announced its investment in Nuevocor to accelerate the preclinical development of an adeno-asso...

June 18, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore discovers novel approach to liver recovery after paracetamol toxicity

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), in collaboration with colleagues in Si...

June 21, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea presents innovative eye surface reconstruction method

A team of scientists at South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has developed a new...

June 18, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia-US team brings world-first durable total artificial heart

A consortium of universities, hospitals and industry, led by Monash University in Australia and US-based BiVACOR, have r...

June 17, 2021 | Thursday | News
Ultrasensitive pressure sensors pave way for robot skin in Singapore

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a pressure sensor that c...

June 17, 2021 | Thursday | News
China-US collaboration to advance novel biotherapies for cancer treatment

China-based Harbour BioMed has entered into a multi-year, multifaceted research collaboration agreement with Dana-Farber...

June 16, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's MoH grants $10 M for brain tumour research

A team of researchers from National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Duke-NUS Me...

June 15, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan links osteoarthritis with increased risk of Parkinson’s disease

A team of researchers at the National Taiwan University Hospital has conducted a study linking osteoarthritis (OA) with ...

June 14, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia develops tool to study virus evolution in test tube

The University of Queensland (UQ), QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Peter Doherty Institute for Infe...

June 14, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore-UK team to develop a novel device to reduce Chemotherapy side effects

A team of clinicians and scientists from the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) at the National Univ...

June 10, 2021 | Thursday | News
Malaysia eavesdrops on cell communications to diagnose cancer earlier

Cells communicate with neighbouring or distant cells by secreting lipid-bound vesicles known as extracellular vesicles (...

June 10, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops world-first blood test to monitor cancer treatment success

Cancer patients who are undergoing targeted therapy can look forward to a new blood test that could tell their doctors w...

June 9, 2021 | Wednesday | News
US develops odour test to sniff out hard-to-detect cancers

An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancre...

June 7, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia makes fundamental advances in understanding T cell immunity

Australia's Monash University researchers have provided a fundamental advance regarding how T cells become activated whe...

June 4, 2021 | Friday | News
Vela Diagnostics, NCCS to refine novel cancer therapy in Singapore

Vela Diagnostics has announced a collaboration with the National Cancer Centre of Singapore (NCCS) to develop ...

June 4, 2021 | Friday | News
AVATAMED, A*STAR open joint lab for precision oncology services in Singapore

AVATAMED, a precision medicine service company based in Singapore, has announced the setting up of a joint lab with...

June 1, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China designs biomimetic nanosheet for cancer therapy and imaging

A research team from the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology (ABCT) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic Unive...

June 1, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan takes step forward towards treating hereditary deafness

Researchers at Juntendo University in Japan report in the journal Human Molecular Genetics that a stem-cell te...

May 31, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia develops world-first multiple sclerosis global image database

A world-first global MS image database has been launched in Australia complementing MSBase, the largest clinical MS pati...

May 31, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore discovers way to predict chemotherapy resistance

Ovarian cancer is usually treated with platinum-based chemotherapy; however, a significant number of patients are resist...

May 31, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore develops new biomaterial to aid in bone repair

A research team at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed a new biomaterial to ...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
China develops new therapeutic direction for Huntington’s disease

Professor Ho Yin Edwin Chan from the School of Life Sciences of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in coll...

May 27, 2021 | Thursday | News
Scientists explore use of violet light to stop myopia progression

An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding a powerful potential treatment for...

May 26, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Microba Life Sciences partners with Illumina to accelerate microbiome research

Illumina, Inc., the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has announced that it has united with ...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong's Genome Project to implement first large-scale sequencing initiative

UK-based startup Lifebit Biotech Ltd has announced that it has been awarded a four-year contract by Hong Kong Genome Ins...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore opens new centre to advance regenerative medicine

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) has announced the launch of a research institute and disease centr...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China develops novel targeted therapy for breast cancer

A group of researchers from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), in collaboration with Cornell University in the US, has...

May 21, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore proposes new holistic way of understanding infections

An international research team led by NTU Singapore has proposed a new holistic way of understanding infection...

May 21, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore creates intelligent material for delivering drugs within body

Researchers from the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) ha...

May 13, 2021 | Thursday | News
ERS Genomics and GenScript sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement

ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-...

May 12, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm MDimune focuses on novel targeted extracellular vesicle-based therapeutics

Navigo Proteins, a protein engineering biotech company generating scaffold protein-based affinity ligands, and MDimune, ...

May 12, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore advances stem cell technology to first-in-man clinical trial

Institutes and centres under the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) are joining hands together with Singa...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea uses 3D printing for developing artificial diabetic skin

A research team led by Professor Dong-Woo Cho and Minjun Ahn of the Pohang University of Science and Technology or POSTE...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea brings world's first pancreatic beta cell regeneration to cure diabetes

Nexturn Bio Inc., a subsidiary of South Korea based Nexturn Bioscience Co., Ltd., has selected its first technological i...

May 10, 2021 | Monday | News
A*STAR, Hummingbird Bio announce partnership for cancer immunotherapy in Singapore

The Experimental Drug Development Centre (EDDC), Singapore’s national platform for drug discovery and development ...

May 7, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore conducts landmark study for early detection of liver cancer

A first of its kind cohort study on patients at high risk of developing primary liver cancer also known as hepatocellula...

May 6, 2021 | Thursday | News
Taiwan, US partnership to explore use of nebulizing Igs against respiratory conditions

Taiwanese firm HCmed has announced the start of a strategic partnership with global biotherapeutics leader CSL Behring, ...

May 4, 2021 | Tuesday | News
EdiGene augments clinical translation of gene editing technologies

EdiGene, Inc. has announced the successful completion of an RMB 400 million (approximately USD 62 million) Series B Plus...

May 3, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore finds molecule for dual protection against vascular inflammation

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research...

April 23, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore lays focus on anti-fibrosis therapeutic antibody programme

GenScript Biotech Corporation's biopharmaceutical CDMO segment, GenScript ProBio has announced a collaboration with the ...

April 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Pharmactive advisory panel to support business development globally

Spanish Company, Pharmactive Biotech, S.L., is tapping into the pharmaceutical market with its leading branded ingredien...

April 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers protein that causes neurological complications in HFMD

Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease (HFMD) is a generally mild, contagious viral infection common in young children. In Singa...

April 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Terumo boosts global plasma collection and delivery platform with CSL

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies and CSL Plasma announced a collaboration to deliver a new plasma collection platform ...

April 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia unveils new tool for collaborative cancer research centre

The unveiling of a new tool at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) to support ground-breaking cancer research...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News

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