UN provides $15M in the fight against COVID-19

World |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Mar, 2020

UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock has released US$15 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help fund global efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus. The announcement ca...Read more

Tiziana to Develop Monoclonal Antibody as Potential Treatment to COVID-19

World |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Mar, 2020

Tiziana Life Sciences plc, a biotechnology company focused on innovative therapeutics for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, announced today that it is expediting development of  TZ...Read more

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome & Mastercard collaborate for COVID-19 therapies

World |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Mar, 2020

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard have committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic by identifying, assessi...Read more

WuXi Biologics Completes Weather-Tight Sealof

World |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Mar, 2020

WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing, announced that it ha...Read more

Berkeley Lights Launches T Cell Receptor Sequencing Kit

World |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Mar, 2020

Berkeley Lights, a leader in cell selection, on 6 March 2020 launched their new T Cell Receptor Sequencing Kit (TCRseq Kit). The TCRseq Kit enables users of Berkeley Lights' Beacon and Ligh...Read more

LabCorp Launches Test for Coronavirus Disease

World |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Mar, 2020

US based LabCorp, a leading global life sciences company that is deeply integrated in guiding patient care, is making its LabCorp 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), NAA test available from ...Read more

Cytel champions precision oncology master protocol trial designs

World |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Mar, 2020

A new paper authored by statistical experts at Cytel has been published in the world-renowned journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. The open-access paper, titled ‘An Overview o...Read more

FDA bans ESDs for self injurious behaviour

World |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Mar, 2020

After careful consideration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a final rule to ban electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) used for self-injurious or aggressive behavi...Read more

Corona Virus genetics pattern guides CVOID-19 Diagnosis assays

World |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Mar, 2020

Coronavirus detection assay depends on its genetic sequences identification. But as the number of potential cases increases, and concerns rise about the possibility of a global pandemic, th...Read more

Sona, GE Healthcare to complete coronavirus rapid screening test

World |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Mar, 2020

Sona Nanotech Inc. and GE Healthcare Life Sciences will jointly complete test development of the Sona Covid-19 Coronavirus rapid response lateral flow test, and will use GE Healthcare Life ...Read more

BC Platforms Appoints Board Member Karen Tay Koh to Accelerate Asia Growth

World |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Mar, 2020

BC Platforms, a world leader in providing powerful genomic data management and analysis solutions, on 2 March 2020 announced the appointment of Karen Tay Koh to its Board. Singapore-based K...Read more

Call for Ideas: Innovative technology to reduce visual impairment & blindness

World |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Mar, 2020

US based Seva Foundation has announced a call for ideas to identify innovative technology-based solutions to improve eye care delivery. It is committing $250k to spark innovation in te...Read more

Gilead Initiates Ph 3 trials of remdesivir for COVID-19

World |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Mar, 2020

Gilead Sciences, has announced the initiation of two Phase 3 clinical studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of remdesivir in adults diagnosed with COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). These ...Read more

Moderna ships mRNA vaccine against novel coronavirus (mRNA-1273) for Ph 1 study

World |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Feb, 2020

Moderna, a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients has announced t...Read more

Takeda appoints new Area Head for ICMEA

World |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Feb, 2020

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced the appointment of Dr.Mahender Nayak as Area Head for the Company’s ICMEA (India, C.I.S., Middle East, Turkey, and Africa) Area. In his curren...Read more

Indian Pharma market to raise from US$34.3bn in 2020 to more than US$45bn by 2025

World |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Feb, 2020

Following the recent news that Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL) has agreed to acquire Wockhardt Ltd’s select divisions of branded generics business in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and...Read more

New drug combination hopes to exploit metabolic habits of glucose-hungry cancer cells

World |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Feb, 2020

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, US have designed a new drug cocktail that kills some types of brain and soft tissue cancers by tricking the cancer cells to behave as i...Read more

Arctoris launches BioTarget 2020 to support biotech company innovations

World |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Feb, 2020

Arctoris Ltd, an Oxford-based company that operates the world’s first fully automated drug discovery platform, has announced the 2nd edition of BioTarget, a global business competitio...Read more