Robust regulations needed

Singapore |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2014

Singapore: The Asia Pacific (APAC) medical device market touched an estimated $54.5 billion at the beginning of 2012. This growth was primarily led by the population size, an ageing popu...Read more

Fab'entech launches bird flu trial in Singapore

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Fab'entech, a French biopharmaceutical company specialized in developing specific polyclonal immunoglobulins against emerging infectious diseases is launching its first clinical...Read more

Big potential in Asia market: Envirotainer CEO

Singapore |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Oct, 2012

According to industry estimates, healthcare cold-chain market is growing by 10 percent per year since companies producing blood plasma, insulin, vaccine or other biological pharmaceuticals ...Read more

Agilent drives innovation in mass spectrometry & chromatography

Singapore |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2014

Singapore: Agilent Technologies, which was founded in 1999, is synonymous with the R&D of liquid chromatography/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS) equipments. It is accredited...Read more

Overcoming challenge of data analysis in mass spectrometry

Singapore |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2014

Singapore: The research and clinical communities are constantly seeking new technologies that provide faster, more accurate, and more sensitive results, according to a research report by Fr...Read more

Molecular diagnostics is key to future

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

China, Japan, India and Singapore are leveraging on genetic technologies to develop molecular diagnostic platform which is much more efficient and effective in tracking diseases. According ...Read more

Dr Anthony S Rebuck, Quintiles: Entry of new biosimilars will transform biopharma in 2013

Singapore |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Dec, 2012

Big news in 2013 will be the growth of biosimilars in the biologics segment. By the end of the year, biosimilars will account for five percent of all biologics in use, up 16-fold from 2011 ...Read more

Partnerships promote quality talent

Singapore |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 May, 2012

While many multinational companies have reduced their manpower to cut costs in 2011, regional companies in Asia have gone for the opposite. The primary reason for a such move by Asian compa...Read more

Luye Pharma invests in NuSep's PrIME technology

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Aug, 2012

Singapore: SGX-listed Luye Pharma Group is investing S$6 million (A$4.6 million) in NuSep's Singapore subsidiary Prime Biologics in exchange for a 10 percent interest in the company. Under...Read more

Transcu to acquire Nanomizer

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 11 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Transcu Group, a life sciences company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of cutting-edge technologies to improve the quality of life, entered into an agr...Read more

BioSpectrum rolls out 2nd Smart Healthcare survey

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2013

Singapore: BioSpectrum Asia (BSA) rolls out the second edition of the Smart Healthcare survey for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The findings of the survey will be published in the Novembe...Read more

Get the best out of single-use bioreactors

Singapore |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 1 Comment | 24 Apr, 2014

Singapore: The high value of growth media and the length of a typical cell culture process spur for highest scrutiny when setting up production facilities. A leaking bioreactor would genera...Read more

China Cord Blood Corporation to partner with Cordlife Group

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Aug, 2012

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC), the first and largest cord blood banking operator in China, and Cordlife Group, a cord blood and tissue banking service provider listed on th...Read more

MRI scan minus the acoustic discomfort

Singapore |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2014

Singapore: GE Healthcare's recently-launched Silent Scan is a revolutionary technology under magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan portfolio that dramatically quietens MRI exams, and is gro...Read more

Medical tourism market to reach $32.5 bn globally in 2019: Report

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Oct, 2013

Singapore: The global medical tourism market was valued at $10.5 billion in 2012 and is estimated to reach a market worth $32.5 billion in 2019 at a CAGR of 17.9 percent from 2013 to 2019, ...Read more

Nobel Laureate Yamanaka gives lecture at A*STAR

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Apr, 2013

Singapore: A*STAR invited the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology, Professor Shinya Yamanaka, to give a lecture at Biopolis under the A*STAR Biomedical Research Council Distinguis...Read more

Biopolis marks 10 years of biomedical R&D

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2013

Singapore: Biopolis, an international research and development (R&D) centre located in Singapore, is marking the completion of a decade as a world-class biomedical research hub. Opened...Read more

SMC Biotech uses sugar to repair bones

Singapore |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Jul, 2013

Singapore: SMC Biotechnology, a regenerative medicine company focused on developing carbohydrate compounds that enhance tissue regeneration, recently published data in the online journal Bi...Read more