Zebra Technologies Contributes to Global COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Singapore's Zebra Technologies Corporation, an innovator at the edge of the enterprise with solutions and part...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
EmTech Asia 2020 to unravel emerging technologies in Virtual forum

MIT Technology Review and Koelnmesse have reimagined EmTech Asia in digital format. Now in its seventh edition, EmTech A...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Naari completes acquisition of ANDAs from Intas Pharmaceuticals

Leading women’s health company Naari Pte Limited (“Naari”), a Singapore-incorporated wholly-owned subs...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Advanced vaccine manufacturing technologies scaling-up at Pharma Industries

The global vaccine effort is guided by four imperatives: speed, manufacture, deployment scale, and global access. The cu...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Tychan to begin Ph 1 trials for mAb against COVID-19

With approval from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Tychan,  a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology com...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
Gilead's Veklury gets approval for COVID-19 treatment in Singapore

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore (HSA) has granted conditional approv...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore assessing virus survival based on air quality

uHoo, an air quality management company based in Singapore and Hong Kong, has launched the "uHoo Virus Index" - the worl...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore witness hike in Dengue outbreak

National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore warned the residents on the background of 735 cases last week which ...

June 5, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore's portable wearable devices to assist in COVID-19 contact tracing

Singapore is reviewing the possibility to distribute a "portable contact tracing device" to assist in its meth...

June 5, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore builds vaccine manufacturing capacity

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on 5 June 2020 while participating in 'Global Vaccine Summit 2020' th...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
Medicom announces new mask production facility in Singapore

The Medicom Group, one of the world's leading manufacturers of surgical and respiratory masks, has announced the further...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
École Polytechnique to attract more Singaporean Students and Researchers

For the past 20 years, the top French Science & Technology institution has built strong relationships with...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
'NCH Disinfection Program' attempts to control and prevent COVID-19 in SG

NCH Asia Pacific, a global leader in industrial and commercial maintenance products and services since 1919, announ...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
Proteona, Twist Bioscience to develop neutralizing antibody therapy against COVID-19

Singapore based Proteona has announced that US headquartered Twist Bioscience will join the international alliance led b...

June 4, 2020 | Thursday | News
Innovation and inspiration on tap at free Virtual SAS Global Forum 2020

As analytics continues to guide and drive the world’s response to COVID-19, SAS debuts the final instalment of its...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Lucence launches SARS-CoV-2 RNA RT-PCR clinical testing service

Singapore based startup Lucence Diagnostics has launched SARS-CoV-2 RNA RT-PCR clinical testing service to support ...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots deactivate SARS-CoV-2

One of Singapore’s leading general hospitals has deployed the Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping RobotsTM, proven to d...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Allianz Care introduce digital health services to Singapore-based customers

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Singapore Branch and Allianz Care have partnered with digital healthc...

May 27, 2019 | Monday | News
NTU Singapore-Harvard study brings hope for Parkinson's treatment

A promising molecular pair has offered hope that could lead to the development of a new treatment to slow down Parkinson...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
Endofotonics focuses on real time detection of early stomach cancer

Endofotonics announced that it has secured an investment of S$12 million led by eminent healthcare invest...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Shinshu University, Toshiba develop tumor-tropic liposome technology

Japan based Toshiba Corporation and a team led by Professor Yozo Nakazawa at the Department of Pediatrics, Shinshu Unive...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
MIMS conducts COVID-19 conversation web-series for Asian PCPs

Singapore based MIMS Group conducted an online symposium for Asian primary care physicians (PCPs) titled "COVID-19:...

May 28, 2020 | Thursday | News
Penta Security expands presence in Singapore healthcare sector

Penta Security, the first appliance-type identity and access management (IAM) solution provider in South Korea, exp...

May 27, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Holmusk closes $21.5 M series A funding round

Singapore based Holmusk, a leading data science and health technology company, today announced a US$21.5 million&nb...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
Positive Correlation between Stress, Weight Gain And Physical Body Pain Observed

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives and livelihood of many people. It has caused insecurities, anxiety an...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Singapore discovers specific gene drivers linked to Asian lung cancer

Singapore scientists have completed one of the largest comprehensive genome studies of Asian lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD)....

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
Roche’s Tecentriq approved for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer

Roche, a global leading provider of pharmaceuticals and cancer treatments, today announced that the Health Sciences Auth...

May 19, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore to develop rapid non-invasive tests for COVID-19

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has recei...

May 20, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Intellect launches digital therapy app for masses

Singapore based mental health tech startup Intellect has launched an app that provides a new form of digital therap...

May 19, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's Experian connects COVID-19 impacted consumers in Asia

Experian, the world leader in information services, 18 May 2020 announced that it is working with its existing telco par...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's new COVID-19 test detects neutralising Ab without need of containment facility

Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), a research-intensive graduate-entry medical school, GenScript Biotech Corporation, a...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Novena establishes new biz unit for PPE supplies

In current challenging times, Singapore based Novena Global Lifecare (NGL) pivots its business and is now appointed...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
SESTO introduces autonomous mobile disinfectant robot

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

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Strategic Investors Invest in CXA Group aiming health ecosystem platform

CXA Group (CXA), Asia’s first employee ecosystem platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices, announce...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
IIT Guwahati collaborates with Duke-NUS

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have us...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Speedoc's Telemedicine Service to support Singaporeans during CB

Speedoc app users can now consult a Singapore-registered General Practitioner (GP) from Speedoc’s pool of over 50 ...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Hummingbird closes extended Series B funding round of $25M

Singapore & US based Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative biotherapeutics company focused on the discovery and deve...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fullerton offers free COVID-19 symptom checker for Singapore

In its efforts to combat COVID-19 across Asia Pacific, Fullerton Health has announced that it has launched its COVI...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Chugai, A*STAR to develop therapeutic Ab against COVID-19

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo announced that Chugai Pharmabody Research Pte. Ltd. (CPR), a resea...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
Largest east asian genetic study reveals novel diabetes genes

In the largest non-European diabetes genetics study to date that involved 433,540 East Asian individuals from China, Hon...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore uncovers Anti-Phage Defence Mechanisms in Bacteria

Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise i...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
DoctorxDentist to Donate Medical Supplies in Singapore

COVID-19 has been taking over all our lives and with many of the new cases linked to foreign worker dormitories in ...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore offers hope to patients with underactive bladders

Individuals with an underactive bladder, for example following a spinal cord injury, often cannot sense bladder fullness...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Tessa Therapeutics announces new executive leadership

Singapore based Tessa Therapeutics (Tessa), a clinical-stage cell therapy company developing next-generation cancer trea...

May 5, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Biolidics launches rapid test kit for COVID-19

A rapid test kit for COVID-19 launched by former National University of Singapore (NUS) startup company, medtech firm Bi...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
Vela Diagnostics Receives BARDA Funding to Develop COVID-19 Tests

Vela Diagnostics has been awarded a $225,000 contract by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BAR...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vela Diagnostics receives CE mark for COVID-19 test

Singapore headquartered Vela Diagnostics announced that the manual version of the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops comprehensive medical strategy for COVID-19

The Multi-Ministry Taskforce in Singapore has a comprehensive medical strategy to ensure that individuals infected with ...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
MiRXES to distribute A*STAR's SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test

MiRXES, a homegrown Singapore-based biotech, has received Provisional Authorisation from the Health Sciences Author...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore designs AI platform to combat infectious diseases

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to develop, researchers around the world are attempting to find the most effective trea...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
SARS-CoV-02: What are the chances of false negatives in tests?

This May 2020, join BioRad's for a month of discovery with Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) – one of the most exciting ...

April 25, 2020 | Saturday | News
Non-invasive cardio-respiratory sensor to predict clinical respiratory deterioration

The National University Hospital (NUH), NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) and Respiree Pte Ltd announce...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops guide for COVID-19 remote consultation

Primary care health workers now have a guide for conducting remote consultation of suspected COVID-19 patients, develope...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
3,000 Global Healthcare Workers Join Alibaba Online to explore COVID-19

Amid the global spread of COVID-19, it has become more important for medical personnel with firsthand experience treatin...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore explores immunotherapy for COVID-19 treatment

The engineering of specific virus-targeting receptors onto a patient’s own immune cells is now being explored by s...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Entrepreneurship flourishes amid pandemic in Singapore

Singapore based early-stage VC Antler has received over 1500 applications from 100 countries in barely two weeks since i...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Critical self-reliant healthcare life-supporting supply chain to emerge post COVID19

Singapore based ABM Respiratory Care, a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of airwa...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore approves TaqPath COVID-19 combo kit

The Applied Biosystems™ TaqPath™ COVID-19 Combo Kit has received Provisional Authorisation from the Health S...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore creates world’s first IOT-enabled Tele-Ventilator

Singapore based ABM Respiratory Care, a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of airwa...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
NTU builds disinfection robot to tackle COVID-19 outbreak

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a semi-autonomous ...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Study reveals importance of mitochondrial small proteins in energy production

A newly-discovered small protein in mitochondria is essential for energy production, report Duke-NUS researchers and the...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Vela's COVID-19 test receives provisional authorisation from HSA

  Vela Diagnostics has announced that the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test has received provisional authori...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Doctor Anywhere to launch COVID-19 medical advisory clinic

Doctor Anywhere, a regional tech-led healthcare company headquartered in Singapore, is launching the Doctor An...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
“Sustainable Financing Framework" for ASEAN healthcare amidst COVID-19 crisis

Stable and sustainable health financing is considered an essential component for achieving crucial health goals in popul...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | Opinion
Singapore's segregated-team model achieves cancer care during COVID-19

The National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) is a comprehensive academic cancer center in Singapore, manag...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Life Signals receives HSA marketing approval for Tripatch in Singapore

  US based LifeSignals Inc., has announced marketing approval for the Tripatch* ECG Remote Monitoring Patch P...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Risks and consequences surrounding Cyberchondria amidst COVID-19 outbreak

In light of how COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the globe, Singapore's Fake News Laws were discussed promin...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | Opinion
Doctor World ramps up services to combat COVID-19

Integrated telehealth platform, Doctor World is ramping up on its digital infrastructure to continue providing Singapore...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Prolonged usage of PPE induces headaches in frontline healthcare workers

A study conducted by a team of clinical researchers from the National University Hospital (NUH) during the current COVID...

April 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore expands 3rd APAC HPC-AI competition to address COVID-19

The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) and the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore has announced th...

April 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore uncovers cancer-causing hereditary mutation in Asians

Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
OnRobot Brings Highly Flexible food-grade Soft Gripper

Automation just got easier for food and beverage and other “clean” applications such as cosmetics and pharma...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore launches two media platforms to update public on COVID-19

Gov.sg launched two new channels Gov.sg Telegram and Twitter for the public to get information on CO...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Expara seeks startup community to fight COVID-19

Expara, Singapore's pioneer and leader in early-stage venture capital and venture services, is looking for ent...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thrive by knowing your strengths and weaknesses to explore new domain#Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embraced the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming ...

March 8, 2020 | Sunday | Opinion
Vela Diagnostics to offer manual ViroKey SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test

Ahead of Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and in accordance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)&n...

March 31, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's NGL expands affordable medical healthcare

Novena Global Lifecare (the "Company" or "NGL"), entrenches its footprint in Singapore for its medical he...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
Elite Dental Group first to adopt dental AI technology

Elite Dental Group, a cornerstone partner of healthcare giant Novena Global Lifecare, is first in Singapore to...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore designs high resolution medical device

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the prototype of a ha...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore, Malaysia conduct meeting for COVID-19 update

The second Singapore-Malaysia Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting was held via video conference on 24 March 2020. The meet...

March 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore adds $48 B more in “Resilience Budget" to fight COVID-19

Singapore is dedicating nearly SGD $55billion (USD $38.2billion) to combat coronavirus impact in the region, with the in...

March 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore fighting COVID-19 with Fortitude

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Singapore, have successfull...

March 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Rockwell Automation appoints new Regional Director, Southeast Asia

Rockwell Automation, Inc has announced the appointment of Marcelo Tarkieltaub as Regional Director, Southeast Asia. Base...

March 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Lucence develops medical device for COVID-19 diagnosis

Singapore based molecular diagnostics company Lucence has announced the development of the SAFER-Sample (Stabilization o...

March 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore researchers show Underweight diabetics are prone to TB

“’Persistent cough in underweight patients with diabetes warrants screening for active tuberculosis.” ...

March 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore announces AI platform for cell therapy and immuno-oncology

Singapore based Proteona Pte. Ltd. has announced the “DeepSee” collaboration on developing a platform for pa...

March 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Conservation scientist Koh Lian Pin returns to NUS BioSciences

The National University of Singapore (NUS) on 20 March 2020 announced that outstanding Singaporean scientist and alumnus...

March 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Alibaba Cloud offers AI, cloud services to battle Covid-19 globally

Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, on 19 March 2020 announced its offering to medical ...

March 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
Molecular docking show SARS-CoV-2 inhibition by Linebacker & Equivir

SGX-listed Singapore eDevelopment Ltd has announced that its wholly-owned U.S. biomedical subsidiary Impact BioMedical, ...

March 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore formulates novel molecular therapy to treat leukaemia

Scientists and clinicians from Duke-NUS Medical School, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR&...

March 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Philips reveals poor sleeping pattern of Singaporeans

Singaporeans are sleeping more on average, getting 7 hours of sleep per night (vs 6.4 hours in 2019) – 6.7 hours o...

March 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore works on developing Asian immune diversity atlas

With the goal of supporting the science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent, or manage all diseas...

March 16, 2020 | Monday | News
Master Your Craft and Continue to Move Forward #Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embraced the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming ...

March 12, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Novo Nordisk to enhance work on liver diseases

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR’s) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), and the Na...

March 13, 2020 | Friday | News
PM Lee’s COVID-19 address in full : This is SG United, We are SG United.

  Singapore , 12 March 2020   Here's the full address:   My fellow Singaporeans, good...

March 12, 2020 | Thursday | News
Never Give-up Your Core Values and Principles #Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embracing the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming...

March 8, 2020 | Sunday | Opinion
Singapore to Launch Free Online Public Course on Infection Control

As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve and affect more countries, understanding infection - how it spreads and ho...

March 11, 2020 | Wednesday | News
"Knowing your strengths, uniqueness and weaknesses drives success"#Women'sDay2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embracing the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming...

March 8, 2020 | Sunday | Opinion
Frost & Sullivan Defines Top Femtech Global Opportunities by 2024

In an era where the healthcare industry is moving toward personalized care solutions and the acknowledgment of inherent ...

March 9, 2020 | Monday | Analysis

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