Australia starts new drug trial to treat COVID-19

The trial, led by Associate Professor Steven Tong, Infectious Diseases clinician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) i...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Seegene exports 10M COVID-19 diagnostic tests to 60 countries

South Korea based Seegene, the leading multiplex diagnostic assay developer, has announced that the company has exported...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | 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
Australia uses anti-microbial copper to beat COVID-19

Australian company SPEE3D has successfully developed and tested a fast and affordable way to 3D print anti-microbial cop...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Novartis to sponsor HCQ clinical trial in COVID-19 patients

Novartis has reached an agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with a Phase III clinical tr...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
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
Taiwan's NHRI develops a prototype COVID-19 rapid diagnostic kit

The National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan announced on 2 April 2020 that it has successfully develop...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Fosun Pharma gets FDA EUA nod for COVID-19 detection kit

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from FDA for its ...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Inovio to begin Ph 1/2 clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has announced that the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innov...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan-Denmark develop rapid test kit for COVID-19

Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan has announced that a joint effort of Taiwan-Denmark startup BluSense D...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan develops rapid coronavirus test kit

Taiwan researchers at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have developed a new nucleic acid test kit to dete...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Assistive diagnostic AI tool to tackle COVID-19 in Malaysia

Skymind Holdings (Skymind), the world’s first dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem builder, recently d...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Combined treatment from existing drugs might combat COVID-19

There is no specific drug which can fight against COVID-19 yet. Developing a specific drug is quite tough. It is no...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to donate $1M for COVID-19 relief fund

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that, through the Japan Center for International Exchange, it will make a ...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | 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
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation expands commitment to global COVID-19 response

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced an expansion of its funding for the global res...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Global consortium accelerates drug development for COVID-19

A cross-border initiative led by the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Dr. Nir London has brought together a wide ra...

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
Fujifilm accelerates favipiravir production for COVID-19 treatment

Fujifilm is ramping up production of its antiviral treatment drug favipiravir, one of many approved drugs being tested...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Wireless signals and AI to monitor COVID-19 patients remotely

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, hospitals are working to prevent overcrowding and keep healthcare workers...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Three Chinese vaccines against COVID-19 are on the way

According to the latest news from Science and Technology Daily, two COVID-19 inactivated vaccines were just approved f...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | 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
Vault Health launches saliva based test for COVID-19

Vault Health, a US based startup specializing in healthcare for men, has turned focus to help fulfill demand for hard to...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sinovac to conduct human clinical trial for COVID-19 vaccine

Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced that the company has obta...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
HALIX Enters Collaboration with the University of Oxford for GMP Manufacturing of a COVID-19 Vaccine

HALIX B.V. has joined a consortium of partners under the guidance of the University of Oxford, to provide GMP manuf...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | 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
Seegene receives HC approval for COVID-19 assay

South Korea based Seegene, developer of multiplex molecular technologies and multiplex clinical molecular diagnostics ha...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thailand approves steps to ease COVID-19 impact

The Board of Investment of Thailand (BOI) has approved a series of measures to mitigate the impact of the coro...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Nanox partners with Qure.ai to improve imaging solutions

Israel based NANO-X IMAGING LTD, an innovative medical imaging company, announces its collaboration with Indian startup ...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BD launches new molecular diagnostic test for COVID-19

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced that the U.S. Food and Dr...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
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
South Carolina Launches COVID-19 Emergency Supply Portal

A collaboration between SCMEP, the SC Hospital Association, the SC Department of Commerce and SCBIO has resulted in the ...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo commences gene therapy research to restore vision

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd. and Nagoya Institute of Technology ha...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
MedGenome, SGRF predict COVID-19 susceptibility

A group of Indian and US researchers from MedGenome and SciGenom Research Foundation (SGRF) collaborated to analyze DNA ...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia pitches $2M additional funds for COVID-19 research

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia will provide an additional $2 million of funding f...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech accelerate global COVID-19 vaccine development

BioNTech and Pfizer Inc. have disclosed additional details of their collaboration to advance candidates from BioNTech&rs...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer Advances Battle Against COVID-19 on Multiple Fronts

Pfizer Inc.on 9 April 2020, announced important advances in the battle against the global COVID-19 pandemic. Some o...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Eli Lilly begins clinical testing of COVID-19 therapies

Eli Lilly and Company announced that it has entered into an agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infecti...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Malaysia to use AI solution to combat COVID-19 pandemic

Huawei Malaysia has joined hands with the Malaysia Ministry of Health to contribute Huawei Cloud AI-assisted D...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
China to set up joint lab for COVID-19 treatment

Huami has announced a collaboration with China National Clinical Research Center of Respiratory Disease (NCRCRD) and Gua...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Samsung Biologics, Vir Biotechnology team up to fight COVID-19

South Korea based Samsung Biologics and US based Vir Biotechnology, Inc. have announced a manufacturing agreement under ...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan identifies potential COVID-19 inhibitors

Taiwan's Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan announced that it has screened out protease inhibitors of the COVID-19 corona...

April 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia offers financial aid to early phase clinical trials in APAC

Leading Australian CRO Avance Clinical on 3 April 2020 detailed the top reasons it's APAC biotechs selected Australia fo...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Genetron Health develops detection kit for COVID-19

Genetron Holdings Limited (Genetron Health), a China-based precision oncology company that covers full-cycle cancer care...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia to use intravenous zinc in COVID-19 fight

A world-first trial will see researchers from Australia's Austin Health and the University of Melbourne, use i...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Inspirata offers Free Remote Pathology Solution to tackle COVID-19

Cancer informatics and digital pathology solution provider Inspirata announced earlier this week its free remote p...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda and CSL Behring to Develop Potential COVID-19 Hyperimmune Therapy

Takeda and CSL Behring, a provider of plasma-derived and recombinant therapies based in King of Prussia, PA, on 6 April ...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Sesderma Labs produces Lactyferrin to counter the COVID-19 strain

Sesderma, a Spanish company specializes in Nanotechnology, has managed to produce an effective drug named Lactyferrin (L...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Bio-Rad launches serology assay to detect COVID-19 Abs

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced t...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Global Leaders issue G20 call to take action for COVID-19

A 165-strong international group including 92 former Presidents and Prime Ministers, along with current economic and hea...

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
Clinical Trials with Oxford RCGP RSC

A letter from TPP, the RCGP and the University of Oxford is being sent to all 2600 practices in England that currently...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan’s success in controlling Covid-19 has bolstered its global standing

Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suspected human to human transmission of Coronavirus much earlier ...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan finds key antibodies in COVID-19 patients

A Taiwanese research team has produced 25 human monoclonal antibodies based on antibody gene segments from three patient...

April 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
New World Development launches new COVID-19 initiative

In an effort to safeguard the health and well-being of the local community in Hong Kong in the fight against C...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
India, Australia partner to develop vaccine for COVID-19

Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL), a leading vaccines manufacturing company, has announced that the company is going t...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Malaysian firm creates app for security concerns during pandemic

As small to large enterprises alike execute social distancing measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a resulting...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan implements effective measures to Battle Coronavirus

Several Asian governments’ and officials have geared up to implement measures to control and mitigate the damages ...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Ventilator shortages worsen globally amidst COVID-19 outbreak

Ventilator shortages are a critical reality as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to worsen globally. According to GlobalDa...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | Opinion
Digital Science & Zhipu.AI to build COVID-19 information portal

Digital Science, a leading technology company serving emergent needs across the research sector, announces a partnership...

April 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia to develop rapid test for COVID-19 detection

A team, led by Associate Professor Menno van Zelm from Australia's Monash University’s Central Clinical ...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
GSK and Vir Biotech search for coronavirus solutions

UK headquartered GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) and US based Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (VIR) have announced they have signed a ...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
COVID-19 : The current case fatality rate globally

CFRs vary widely between countries, from 0.2% in Germany to 7.7% in Italy. But it says that this is not necessarily an a...

April 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Where do Therapeutic companies stand in combating COVID-19 ?

Coronavirus pandemic has been a global threat to both healthcare and economy across the world. More than 200 countries a...

April 6, 2020 | Monday | Company results
Orion Health eases strain with COVID-19 management platform

New Zealand based Orion Health has been working closely with its customers since the beginning of the outbreak to quickl...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
(COVID-19) : Are countries bending the curve?

This chart here is looking at the daily number of deaths. To bring the pandemic to an end countries have to b...

April 4, 2020 | Saturday | Analysis
Siemens Healthineers releases test kit for COVID-19

Siemens Healthineers has announced the availability of its molecular Fast Track Diagnostics (FTD) SARS-CoV-2 Assay test ...

April 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Tencent deepens collaboration with WHO to combat COVID-19

China based Tencent Holdings Limited has announced to deepen collaboration with the World Health Organization ...

April 6, 2020 | Monday | News
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April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
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Coronavirus Daily Updates : Malaysia , Taiwan & Thailand  Daily new confirmed cases of COVID-19 per million ...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
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April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
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Daily New Confirmed Cases : Japan   ...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
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Daily new confirmed cases of COVID-19 per million people : China   ...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | 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
China Confirmed Cases of Coronavirus ( Covid-19) - Dashboard

  Daily new confirmed cases of COVID-19 per million people : China   The name of the disease and th...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
United States of America : Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tracker USA

US confirmed cases US State Wise   Explore More on North America ...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Siemens opens additive manufacturing network to fight COVID-19

In response to the ongoing global health crisis caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, Siemens is making its Addi...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Weizmann Institute scientists present a mathematical model for restarting the economy

If you fast for two months, you will lose weight, but you will almost certainly die. Similarly, a two-month lockdown mig...

April 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
WHO releases healthcare guidelines to tackle the pandemic

To help countries navigate through COVID-19 challenge, the World Health Organization (WHO) has updated operational ...

April 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
CSIRO begins testing COVID-19 vaccines

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, has...

April 2, 2020 | Thursday | 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
360biolabs to join R&D efforts to combat COVID-19

Australia based 360biolabs has announced that it is excited to offer assays to support COVID-19 vaccine development and ...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BD, BioMedomics launch rapid serology test for COVID-19

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, and BioMedomics, a privately held, ...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Marico calls for innovations to address COVID-19 crisis

In response to the growing seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic that has engulfed the world and now threatens the Indian...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Cyient to provide critical medical supplies for COVID-19 battle

India headquartered Cyient, a global engineering and technology solutions company, has announced that it has receiv...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
nference unveils RNA sequencing resource against COVID-19

US based company nference has announced the launch of a first-in-class software resource that synthesizes disp...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
J&J announces lead vaccine candidate for COVID-19

Johnson & Johnson has announced the selection of a lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate from constructs it has been worki...

March 31, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi, Translate Bio to develop mRNA vaccine candidate against COVID-19

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, and US based Translate Bio, a clinical-stage messenger RNA ...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
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
Australia to roll out trial for TB vaccine against COVID-19

Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, A...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
WHO enrolls Spain and Norway for COVID-19 initial Clinical trial

"Spain and Norway are ready to enrol their patients for COVID-19 clinical trial", announces Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu...

March 28, 2020 | Saturday | 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
China gives emergency nod to Fosun Pharma's COVID-19 test kit

Shanghai Fosun Long March Medical Science Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Gr...

March 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Medicago announces production of viable vaccine candidate for COVID-19

Medicago, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Quebec City, Canada has announced that they have successfully pro...

March 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher receives CE mark for COVID-19 test

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced that it has received the CE mark in th...

March 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
OliX Pharma employs RNAi approach for COVID-19 therapy

South Korea based OliX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi), has announced that it...

March 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sartorius supports development of first vaccine candidate for COVID 19

Sartorius, a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry, has supported Ca...

March 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
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