Korea-based Seegene introduces PCR test for all VOCs in single tube

Seegene Inc., South Korea based molecular diagnostics company, has unveiled another series of diagnostic test that detec...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea offers niclosamide-based drug as possible cure for COVID-19 variants

Experimental results have been published for the first time showing that an antiviral drug containing niclosamide, an an...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea launches new prestigious award for vaccine industry

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is joining hands with SK bioscience, a leading biopharmaceutical company in So...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | 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
Prestige BioPharma opens global-scale vaccine centre in South Korea

Prestige BioPharma (PBP), a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical with operations in USA and South Korea, has announced the ...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea-based ST Pharm takes leap towards world's largest oligonucleotide CDMO

ST Pharm Co. Ltd., an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) ...

November 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Lunit raises $61M from global healthcare investors

South Korea-based startup Lunit, a leading medical AI provider, has raised $61 million in its Pre-IPO fundrais...

November 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Sartorius expands activities in South Korea

The life science company Sartorius is investing around 270 million euros, some $300 million, through the end o...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | 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 addresses health security at first 'World Emerging Security Forum'

A number of distinguished global leaders and experts joined the first World Emerging Security Forum, which took place in...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | 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
Korea's Lunit gets FDA nod for AI-based chest X-ray triage solution

South Korea-based startup Lunit has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its AI-powered c...

November 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea's wearable heart monitoring device enters into British market

Sky Labs, a South Korea-based healthcare startup, is fully advancing into the British medical device market based on &ls...

November 15, 2021 | Monday | News
NIH injects $8.9M to identify genetic causes of depression in South Korea

A team of researchers will lead the largest population study of its kind aimed at learning more about the genetic variat...

November 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea's GI Innovation inks MoU with Merck for bio drug development

South Korea-based GI Innovation has inked a biopharmaceutical manufacturing and development based Memorandum o...

November 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea announces first MedTech summit in June 2022

The 1st MedTech Korea Summit 2022 (MKS 2022) is scheduled on 21st - 22nd June, 2022 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. MKS 20...

November 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea develops novel sweat-collecting patch for blood sugar monitoring

Sweat is an effective body fluid for analyzing bioanalytes in the body without collecting blood. The sweat sensor can re...

November 8, 2021 | Monday | 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