F&S: Health record spendings to rise $29 mn

Singapore |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Apr, 2013

Singapore: As the healthcare industry across Asia Pacific (APAC) moves towards digitization, electronic health information exchange is becoming a stepping st one to success. Governments, n...Read more

Researchers get close to developing viable tissue

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, have developed a simple method of organizing cells and their microenvironments in hydrogel fib...Read more

Waterproof cochlear implant processor in Singapore

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Jul, 2012

Singapore: The Hearing Solution Group, Southeast Asia's largest Hearing Care Company, has launched the Neptune Sound Processor, the world's first and only waterproof cochlear implant sound ...Read more

What were Asia's Top 20 bio companies in 2012?

Singapore |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Jun, 2013

During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording a double-digit growth of 11.07 percent over $139 billion of 2011. Aro...Read more

Social media, mobile apps transform healthcare in APAC

Singapore |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Aug, 2013

Key tenets pervade the way in which healthcare ecosystems are rapidly changing: quality, outcomes, cost (efficiencies and return on investment), and accessibility. Whether a country has a...Read more

What were the top 20 global M&A transactions of 2012?

Singapore |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Jun, 2013

A majority of life science firms are standing on the edge of the patent cliff and their drug pipelines are experiencing acute scarcity. This is making them seek out partners for mergers &am...Read more

Spring Singapore, Netherlands' Univ sign bio MoU

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Jun, 2013

Singapore: Spring Singapore and Maastricht University Medical Center of Netherelands have signed a partnership to promote and facilitate cross-border business collaborations between Dutch a...Read more

Medtech firm TriReme expands distribution in China

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Mar, 2013

‎Singapore: Singapore-based TriReme Medical has signed a distribution agreement with Weihai Weigao Medical Devices for the distribution of its products in China. Weigao will act as Tr...Read more

A*Star, QuantuMDx to develop lung cancer assays

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 May, 2013

Singapore: A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has signed an agreement with QuantuMDx (QMDx), a UK-based biotech developing handheld diagnostics and whole genome sequencing devices...Read more

Pfizer, Glaxo, Siemens form A*Star R&D consortium

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Jun, 2013

Singapore: Pfizer Asia Pacific, Glaxo Wellcome Manufacturing and Siemens have signed on as founding members of a new A*STAR R&D Consortium Programme - Innovative Processing of Specialti...Read more

Biochips firm AyoxxA gets $3.37 million funding

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Sep, 2012

Singapore: AyoxxA Biosystems, an international biotechnology company, has closed a $3.37 million (2.6 million Euro) series A financing round. The round was led by Wellington Partners Ventur...Read more

L'Oreal opens research center at A*Star's IMB

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2012

Singapore: The L'Oréal Group has opened an Advanced Research Centre in A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) to plug into the world-class research environment in Biopolis and Sing...Read more

Telemedicine is revolutionizing healthcare access

Singapore |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 1 Comment | 30 Nov, 2012

Telemedicine is re-defining access to healthcare in many ways. It has, in particular, proved to be an effective solution in providing specialty healthcare, improving access and reducing cos...Read more

A*Star's Patrick Tan gets Chen Award from HUGO

Singapore |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Apr, 2013

Singapore: Dr Patrick Tan from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has received 2013 Chen New Investigator Award from the international Human Genome Organisation (HUGO). This award...Read more

Consumers are winners in the BRCA gene case

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Jul, 2013

In the wake of US Supreme Court's win-win verdict in Association for Molecular Pathology vs Myriad Genetics case, Frost and Sullivan life sciences industry analysts, Mr Justin Collishaw and...Read more

New discovery helps in understanding diseases better

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Scientists from Singapore and Germany have identified that the proteins lamin A (Lmna) and lamin B receptor (Lbr) are essential for holding silent genes in their correct position...Read more

A*Star identifies gastric cancer trigger

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Jan, 2013

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have discovered four processes by which gastric cancer is formed, by characterizing micro and macroscale mutations. One...Read more

DHL launches air freight service for bio firms

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Jun, 2013

Singapore: DHL Global Forwarding, air and ocean freight specialist, has launched DHL Thermonet, a new air freight product tailored to the life sciences and healthcare sector. This global se...Read more