OTSAW tests first live coronavirus sample using disinfection robot

Singapore based OTSAW has built the world's first successfully laboratory tested human coronavirus exterminating machine...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore study links hand-grip strength to metabolic disease in elderly

The prevalence of metabolic disease is on the rise in countries with aging population, such as Singapore, and the early ...

August 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops highly sensitive COVID-19 antibody test

Singapore based biomedical firm Restalyst has developed a COVID-19 antibody test, COVID19N-REAAD™, which will be i...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
Yoozoo joins hands with Plano to tackle global myopia epidemic

Plano Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based health technology startup, and one of the world's leading providers of interactive...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore designs AI system to hand gesture recognition

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an Artificial Intel...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Unlocking Healthcare and Life Sciences opportunities in Singapore’s future economy

The far-reaching and profound social and economic impact of COVID-19 has fundamentally reshaped the Singapore economy. W...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
AI accelerates drug repurposing to find potential COVID-19 therapies, says GlobalData

Out of all the different approaches available to find new therapies to treat COVID-19, drug repurposing is one of the fa...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
FedEx awarded “Best Supply Chain Hub in Asia” at APAC Bioprocessing Excellence Awards 2020

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, was named ...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
APACMed Virtual Forum 2020 redefining healthcare agility

The annual medical forum held by the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) brings more than 1,000 delega...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
LABMED ships 65M medical masks, 38M SARS-CoV-2 Transport Medium Kits

Singapore based LABMED continues to play an increasingly crucial role in the supply of medical masks and medic...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Simmons & Simmons strengthens financial markets team in Singapore and Hong Kong

Simmons & Simmons, an international law firm that acts as a biotechnology and artificial intelligence business ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
PairX Bio launches venture capital backing targeting Cancer immunotherapies

Singapore based PairX Bio, a next-generation biotechnology startup focusing on cutting-edge cancer immunotherapies, and ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
AUM Biosciences establishes joint lab with SIgN

AUM Biosciences (AUM), a Singapore-headquartered clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to democratize R&D ...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore to create 4,000 new jobs to support healthcare

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat has announced a new injection of S$8 billion stimulus package in add...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
B2B Healthcare procurement Startup, Lumiere32 launches Pay32Clinic

Lumiere32, a Singapore-based B2B healthcare procurement startup, known for its online platform of medical and dental sup...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
ImmunoScape raises $11M to accelerate vital immunotherapies

Singapore based biotech startup ImmunoScape has announced that it has raised USD $11 million (SGD $1...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Merck appoints Liz Henderson as new Regional Vice President, Merck Biopharma APAC

Merck, a leading science and technology company, on 17 August 2020 has announced that Liz Henderson has been appointed R...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore develops new potential therapies for osteoporosis

A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has identified a new avenue to maintain bone health whil...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore launches New Asian Institute of Digital Finance

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the National University of Singapo...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
AVATAMED raises $1 M in seed funding

AVATAMED, a precision medicine company based in Singapore, announced the completion of its Seed round funding of&nb...

August 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
First liquid biopsy to receive FDA approval for profiling tumor mutations

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States approved the liquid biopsy by Guardant Health, the companion...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore offers solution to reverse drug resistance

  Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a synthetic p...

August 10, 2020 | Monday | News
“Emerging evidence reports saliva sampling is more sensitive than nasopharyngeal swabs”

The use of saliva to test for COVID-19 is being considered an important step by the health authorities as Singapore ramp...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
GenScript Biotech Corporation enters strategic distributor partnership with Premas Life Sciences to distribute cPassTM SARS CoV-2 Neutralization Antibody Detection Kit in India.

GenScript Biotech Corporation (“GenScript”, Stock Code: 1548.HK), a leading global biotechnology company tod...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore's Proteona appointed as Certified Service Provider by 10x Genomics

Proteona Pte. Ltd. on 6 August 2020 announced that it has become the first 10x Genomics Certified Service Prov...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
"Healthcare industry optimistic about post-COVID recovery", reports Global Business Barometer

Economic recoveries from crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic come in many shapes. The hope everywhere is always that th...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
SESTO Robotics launches SESTO Magnus Autonomous Mobile Robot

Singapore’s leading autonomous mobile robot company SESTO Robotics has launched SESTO Magnus - a bi-dire...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
NTU, A*STAR develop new way to deliver more drugs through skin

  Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Agency for Sc...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Gero, a Singapore-based Biotech Startup raises $2.2M in Series A Funding

Singapore based Biotech Gero has raised $2.2M in Series A round led by Belarus-based Bulba Ventures. Yury Melnichek, the...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Virtual CAREhab – Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 kickstarts

Amidst the backdrop of a pandemic that continues to evolve, over 1,200 members of the healthcare industry—itself f...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
6th Asia Healthcare Week: A note on “COVID-19 and the NHS UK Response”

Informa Connect Singapore recently conducted its first live webinar to complement the main conference offering. Hosted a...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | Influencers
Singapore's cancer drug advances further in clinical trials

Made-in-Singapore cancer drug, ETC-159, has achieved a new developmental milestone in achieving “First Patient Fir...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops potential antibody treatment for yellow fever

Researchers from Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), an interdisciplinary group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NTU speeds up gold-standard COVID-19 diagnostic test

Clinician-scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Med...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore brings new hope for lymphoma patients

An AI-driven digital medicine platform, called Quadratic Phenotypic Optimisation Platform (QPOP), developed by researche...

July 31, 2020 | Friday | News
Austrianova files Drug Master File with FDA for Cell-in-a-Box products from HEK293 cells

S.E. Asian company, Austrianova, headquartered in Singapore, announced on 28 July 2020 that it has filed a Drug Mas...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
NEJM study demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of mAb to treat Yellow Fever

Tychan, a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing life-saving treatments through disr...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
A*STAR & partners roll out breakthrough COVID-19 test

DSO National Laboratories and A*STAR's Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub in Singapore have jointly developed RESOLUTE 2....

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Equal Strategy launches world's first odorless, medical-grade ambient sanitizer

Equal Strategy, a leading sensory branding consultancy based in Singapore has launched a new business arm, Eco...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Epstein-Barr virus rewires host epigenomes to drive stomach cancer

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), one of the most common human viruses is associated with about 8–10 per cent of stoma...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore develops highly specific COVID-19 test to detect neutralizing Abs in 1hr

Singapore researchers have developed a unique and rapid SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test (sVNT) to determi...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore clinicians develop innovative ventilator for COVID-19 patients

Singapore's Clinician innovators from SingHealth hospitals viz., KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), S...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Oncoshot partners with Mydoc to offer second opinion experts advice to cancer patients

Singapore medical start-up Oncoshot is partnering with digital healthcare provider MyDoc, to give cancer patients access...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
MP Biomedicals, A*STAR co-develop rapid Ab test kit for SARS-COV-2

MP Biomedicals Asia Pacific Pte Ltd in collaboration with Singapore's A*STAR has developed ASSURE®&nb...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Docquity partners with Novartis to support medical professionals

Singapore based startup Docquity, Southeast Asia's largest professional network of doctors, has partnered with...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore boosts nationwide mask production

Singapore has been ramping up its masks production capabilities since experiments have shown that wearing a ma...

July 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore approves clinical trial application for LUNAR-COV19 vaccine

US based Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., a leading clinical-stage messenger RNA medicines company focused on the di...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Omron launches UVC autonomous disinfection service robot

Singapore based OMRON Asia Pacific, a global leader in industrial automation solutions across Asia Pacific, has forayed ...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore researchers solves challenges of adolescent sleep inadequacy

Adolescents in academically competitive societies often fail to obtain adequate sleep on school-day nights. 85% of secon...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops non-invasive ventilation helmet for COVID-19 patients

With the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore’s healthcare system is faced with uncertainties and challenges includin...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
4th edition of Asia’s largest startup challenges "SLINGSHOT 2020" invites application

SLINGSHOT 2020, powered by Startup SG, is now open for applications with over US$575,000 in prizes to be won! As one of...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's surgical robotic firm NDR Medical closes SGD$8m in Series A funding round

Singapore-based surgical robotic firm NDR Medical Technology Pte Ltd today announced that it has raised SGD$8 million in...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore develops advanced human liver organoids

A long-term research collaboration between A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the National Universit...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore invents robotic system with AI-driven skin and vision sensors

Two researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) who are members of the Intel Neuromorphic Research ...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore identifies critical antibody target site in SARS-CoV-2

The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have announced...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore uncovers SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell immunity

A Singapore study has uncovered the presence of virus-specific T cell immunity in people who recovered from COVID-19 and...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
MedTech Innovator, APACMed pick 20 startups for annual programme

US based MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit accelerator in the medical technology industry, in partnership wi...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Vela Diagnostics receives CE-IVD approval for automated COVID-19 detection test

Singapore based Vela Diagnostics has announced that an automated version of its COVID-19 detection test, the ViroKey&tra...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
AVATAMED Partners CBmed in Europe on Precision Cancer Project

AVATAMED and CBmed, together with AIMEDBIO and Shimadzu Corporation, are collaborating in a Precision Cancer Project, le...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Vietnam's Vingroup to give 2,400 ventilators to Russia, Ukraine and Singapore

On July 10, 2020, VinGroup fulfilled its obligations to deliver ventilators to Singapore, Russia and Ukraine. ...

July 11, 2020 | Saturday | News
Singapore develops novel COVID-19 swabs to address global and local shortage

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a global surge in demand for nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, a key element in ...

July 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Lucence, Akribis scale up accurate mass-testing for COVID-19

  Singapore based precision medicine company Lucence and precision engineering company Akribis Systems in Singapor...

July 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
BIA Separations extends coverage in APAC

Slovenia based BIA Separations, a leading bio-chromatography development and manufacturing company, has announced it has...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Caution on viewing COVID-19 vaccine as silver bullet: NUS webinar

The “COVID-19: Updates from Singapore” weekly webinar series is a forum for leading clinicians, scientists, ...

July 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
CAREhab – Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 goes digital this July

Asia-Pacific’s annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab and conference element 6th Singapore Rehabilitation Conf...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Carmine Therapeutics teams up with Takeda for non-viral gene therapies

Singapore based startup Carmine Therapeutics has announced that it has signed a research collaboration agreement with Ja...

July 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Genesis Healthcare Ancestry Kit detects Asian genetic diversity and ancestral heritage

Genesis Healthcare Co., Japan's leading genetic testing and research company, has announced the launch of its ...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers reasons for faster recovery from Antibiotic Treatment side-effects

A team of scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Spinoff Prize positions Proteona among top 44 science-based global spinoff companies

Proteona has been selected by the Spinoff Prize as one of the top 44 science-based spinoff companies from around the wor...

July 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Alibaba Cloud, Fintech Academy, Pfizer accelerate APAC healthcare innovations

Alibaba Cloud, Fintech Academy and Pfizer have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) leading to t...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Freyr Launches COVID-19 Web Platform for Manufacturers

Freyr, a leading global Regulatory solutions and services company, on 1 July 2020 announced the launch of a powerful web...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
TheraVab implements IP management on dClinic's Blockchain

Singapore based Private Healthcare company, TheraVab, is implementing their IP lifecycle and management on dClinic's Pri...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Novo Holdings expands investment scope to Asia

Novo Holdings, world-leading life science investor with a focus on long-term, sustainable value creation with USD 62 bil...

July 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Plano, Santen team up to tackle global burden of myopia

Japan based Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Singapore based Plano Pte. Ltd have announced a strategic alliance to ta...

July 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore brings on-site COVID-19 test results in one hour

A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a portable COVID-19 micro-PCR diagnost...

July 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
CAREhab – Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 goes digital this July

Asia-Pacific’s annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab and conference element 6th Singapore Rehabilitation Conf...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
SingHealth, A*STAR co-develop chatbot for COVID-19 patients care

SingHealth and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), with support from the Integrated Health Informa...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
J&J presents Significant Progress in Myopia Screening and Education in APAC

Johnson & Johnson Vision, a global leader in eye health and part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Compan...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
J&J Vision presents finding on Myopia disease progression in children

Johnson & Johnson Vision*, a global leader in eye health and part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Compa...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sengenics launches multi-antigen COVID-19 biochip test

Singapore based Sengenics, the Functional Proteomics Company, has announced the launch of ImmuSAFE™ COVID+, a mult...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
"Portable Droplet and Aerosol Reducing Tent (DART)" lessens COVID-19 risk

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has invented a foldable tent-like device that serv...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore designs shield to protect COVID-19 healthcare workers

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has invented a foldable tent-like device that serv...

June 26, 2020 | Friday | News
Dengue virus serotype can disguises to evade immune response, vaccines, therapeutics

Singapore saw 1,158 dengue cases in the week ending 13 June 2020, the highest number of weekly dengue cases ever recorde...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
APAC Health Communications firm SPAG Bolsters Regional Expansion

Health communications firm, SPAG, on 23 June 2020 announced new job hires, business expansion in newer markets and ...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore puts focus on threatened miscarriages

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and clinicians at KK Women's a...

June 24, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) impact on Asia-Pacific markets

HONG KONG Prevalence CVD, including heart attack and stroke, is the third leading cause of death in Hong Kong (aft...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | Analysis
EIU launches APAC Economist Intelligence Unit report for heart ailments

  The Cost of Inaction: Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Asia-Pacific   Rehabilitation ...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sengenics collaborates with GSK focusing on immunology

Singapore based Sengenics, a functional proteomics company, has announced that it has entered into a research collaborat...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore extensively maps antibiotic resistance genes

Nature Medicine published a study by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome I...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
KONE's Elevator AirPurifier and Handrail Sanitizer protects against COVID-19

KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has introduced a range of people flow solutions in Singapo...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
CAREhab –Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 goes digital

Asia-Pacific’s annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab and conference element 6th Singapore Rehabilitation Conf...

June 19, 2020 | Friday | News
Qualtrics launches new Telehealth solution to optimize patient experience

Qualtrics, the leader in customer experience and creator of the experience management (XM) category, today announced a n...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
OnRobot Launches Complete Plug-and-Play Intelligent Screwdriver

OnRobot, the maker of tools for collaborative applications, announces the release of its smart, complete-out-of-the-box&...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore identifies five potent Abs to fight COVID-19

Scientists from Defense Science Organisation National Laboratories (DSO) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) ...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
SAS Viya's new category of cloud analytics assist AI in healthcare

SAS® Viya® 4, available in late 2020, is engineered to take advantage of the latest cloud technol...

June 17, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Lucence, A*STAR bring SAFER sample saliva collection kit

Singapore based molecular diagnostics company Lucence and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have ...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
BOGE launches AI-based compressed air stations for Healthcare industry

With the airtelligence provis 3, BOGE sets new standards for the networked control of compressed air compressors. With t...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Bostik launches solvent-free adhesive solutions for APAC medical markets

Bostik, a leading global adhesive specialist for industrial, construction and consumer markets has announced a new serie...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore focuses on digital responses to COVID-19

Minister for Health, Singapore, Gan Kim Yong and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, D...

June 15, 2020 | Monday | News
SESTO HealthGUARD, the Autonomous Mobile Disinfectant Robot

Singapore’s leading autonomous mobile robot company SESTO Robotics has launched a dual-function Autonomous Mobile ...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | Opinion

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