Korea's Seegene develops mpox PCR test assays following WHO global health emergency declaration

Seegene Inc., a leading South Korean company providing a total solution for PCR molecular diagnostics, has developed its...

August 26, 2024 | Monday | News
Siriraj Hospital in Thailand integrates AI to elevate medical research and diagnosis

The Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital at Mahidol University, Thailand has announced the integration of artificia...

August 5, 2024 | Monday | News
Biogen, Beckman Coulter and Fujirebio to develop new tests for tau pathology in Alzheimer’s

Biogen Inc., Beckman Coulter, Inc. (both based in the US) and Japan-based Fujirebio have announced a collaboration to po...

July 31, 2024 | Wednesday | News
AI Breathes New Life into Respiratory Disease Diagnosis

Respiratory diseases are major contributors to global mortality and disability. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (C...

August 1, 2024 | Thursday | Analysis
Japan-based Fujifilm expands health screening service business in Mongolia

Japan-headquartered Fujifilm Corporation has announced the opening of a new NURA health screening centre focusing on...

July 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
First nationwide adoption of AI in national-level breast screening workflow in Middle East

South Korea-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, Lu...

July 22, 2024 | Monday | News
NEC introduces FonesVisuas Test in Thailand to revolutionise disease risk prediction

VitalLife Scientific Wellness Center, a subsidiary of Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand a...

July 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
UKM and Mirxes partner to develop early detection test for colorectal cancer in Malaysia

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), through its Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI), has signed a Memorandum of...

July 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korea's Seegene underscores critical importance of human papillomavirus (HPV) screening

Seegene Inc., a leading South Korean company providing a total solution for PCR molecular diagnostics, demonstrated its ...

July 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
WHO prequalifies first self-test for hepatitis C virus

The World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified the first hepatitis C virus (HCV) self-test which can provide a cri...

July 15, 2024 | Monday | News
AIRS Medical secures $20 M to advance AI-powered preventive healthcare solutions

AIRS Medical, a pioneering force in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics for healthcare applications, has announced...

July 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops 'band-aid' with microlaser technology for detecting glucose levels in sweat

Reseachers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore have developed a ‘band-aid’ or plaster ...

July 9, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Lumos expands distribution partnership in Australia, New Zealand for rapid POC test

FebriDx, Lumos' rapid point-of-care test, is now available to healthcare practitioners in Australia and New Zealand, fol...

July 5, 2024 | Friday | News
National Cancer Society Malaysia partners with Gene Solutions to expand early detection access

National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM) and Gene Solutions have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (...

July 2, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Juniper Biologics expands distribution rights for Caris Life Sciences' molecular profiling in Middle East and Africa

Singapore-headquartered Juniper Biologics, a leading healthcare and pharmaceuticals company focused on commercialising n...

June 24, 2024 | Monday | News
New Zealand designs metric for blood circulation in brain to better understand dementia

Researchers from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zelanad have developed a new metric from measured blood circ...

June 21, 2024 | Friday | News
Chinese biotech firm MGI Tech partners with French startup SeqOne for advanced genomic analysis

China-based biotech company MGI Tech Co. has partnered with France-based startup SeqOne, a leading provider of AI-powere...

June 18, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Mirxes secures grant of S$172k to develop novel cancer screening test in Japan

Singapore-based startup Mirxes has announce that its fully-owned subsidiary, Mirxes Japan, has secured a grant of up to ...

June 18, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Noul participates in malaria project initiated by US CDC

On-device AI healthcare startup in South Korea, Noul has announced that it will jointly participate in a malaria diagnos...

June 17, 2024 | Monday | News
India's Metropolis Healthcare expands African footprint with new reference lab in Kenya

Metropolis Star Lab Kenya, a subsidiary of India’s leading diagnostic service provider, Metropolis Healthcare, has...

June 17, 2024 | Monday | News
Study reveals concerns about financial barriers to equitable provision of prenatal testing in Australia

New research from Monash University has found substantial variation in prenatal screening across Australia, with healthc...

June 17, 2024 | Monday | News
Myriad Genetics collaborates with GSK to improve access to HRD testing in 9 countries

US-based Myriad Genetics, Inc., a leader in genetic testing and precision medicine, has announced a collaboration with B...

June 11, 2024 | Tuesday | News
US FDA gives clearance to Australia's gastrointestinal parasite detection kit

Australia-based Genetic Signatures has announced that the US Food & Drug Administration has cleared the company...

June 6, 2024 | Thursday | News
1 in 6 globally concerned about colorectal cancer screening costs: BGI Genomics report

By 2040, the burden of colorectal cancer (CRC) is projected to increase to 3.2 million new cases and 1.6 million deaths ...

May 31, 2024 | Friday | News
“The rise of the middle class in Southeast Asia is driving the adoption of NGS”

Can you share the solutions that ACT Genomics provides?  ACT Genomics is a leading biotech company that focuses on...

May 31, 2024 | Friday | Opinion
Japan's Hitachi High-Tech extends partnership with Roche for diagnostic testing

Japan's Hitachi High-Tech and Swiss firm Roche have extended their partnership, committing to at least 10 years of addit...

May 27, 2024 | Monday | News
Hong Kong-based startup Eieling Technology implements large-scale liver disease screening programme

According to the '2024 Global Hepatitis Report' by the World Health Organization, the number of lives lost due to viral ...

May 21, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore opens first public-private partnership centre for specialty molecular testing

The National University Hospital (NUH) and Mirxes have announced the official opening of the NUH DMOC@Biopolis, one of S...

May 17, 2024 | Friday | News
AsiaMedic partners with Sunway to establish new diagnostic imaging centre in Singapore

AsiaMedic has announced that the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, AMC Healthcare has entered into a shareholders...

May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | News
BGI establishes intelligent lab in China for initiating colorectal cancer risk assessment

The BGI-Heilongjiang Omics Health Axis Intelligent Laboratory (BGI-HL OHA Intelligent Laboratory) was recently inaugurat...

May 13, 2024 | Monday | News
Inocras, AstraZeneca strengthen genetic testing services in Hong Kong and Macau

Inocras Hong Kong, a subsidiary of Inocras Inc., headquartered in San Diego, USA (formerly Genome Insight, Inc.), a pion...

May 7, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Biocartis & Merck lay focus on improving colorectal cancer treatment in Middle East

Belgium headquartered firm Biocartis has announced an expansion of its collaboration with Merck Serono Middle East and M...

May 7, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong designs computational model to facilitate improvement of influenza vaccines’ protective effects

A research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) has developed ...

May 2, 2024 | Thursday | News
Bayer announces launch of innovative heart health screening tool in Saudi Arabia

German firm Bayer, a leading global life sciences company, and London-based Huma Therapeutics, a leading global digital ...

May 2, 2024 | Thursday | News
Biomerica to enhance colorectal and breast cancer screening in Dubai

Biomerica Inc. has announced a multi-year exclusive distribution agreement with one of the UAE's most substantial health...

April 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
US based C₂N Diagnostics expands Alzheimer’s diagnostics into Japan

C₂N Diagnostics, a specialty diagnostics company with a vision to bring Clarity Through Innovation, has announced a pa...

April 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong develops machine learning model to predict risk of severe hypoglycemia in diabetics

In Hong Kong, one in three adults over the age of 65 have diabetes. To improve the management of this group of older adu...

April 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Thailand approves Qiagen's NeuMoDx HIV-1 Quant assay for blood-borne virus testing

Germany-headquartered Qiagen has announced that its NeuMoDx human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) assay has receiv...

April 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Non-invasive tests are helping fight liver disease in Southeast Asia

As the rate of obesity rises in Southeast Asia and around the world, so too does the prevalence of liver disease, even a...

April 8, 2024 | Monday | Opinion
Japan-based Shimadzu acquires California X-ray Imaging Services

Japan headquartered Shimadzu Corporation has acquired all shares of California X-ray Imaging Services, Inc. (CIS) throug...

April 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Taiwan develops world's first AI-powered sepsis alert system

A team of researchers at China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) has developed Intelligent Sepsis Early Predi...

April 4, 2024 | Thursday | News
Researchers in Taiwan develop tool to accurately detect obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Snoring can be an alarming sign of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Studies showed that 50% of individuals who s...

April 1, 2024 | Monday | News
Roche receives US FDA approval for first molecular test to screen for malaria in blood donors

Swiss firm Roche has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the cobas® Malaria test for use...

March 27, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Singapore invents coin-sized device to rapidly isolate blood plasma for diagnostics

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed a coin-sized chip that can dir...

March 26, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Qiagen partners with International Panel Physicians Association to increase awareness of TB screening requirements

German multinational leader Qiagen has announced a partnership with the International Panel Physicians Association (IPPA...

March 26, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Bayer and Thermo Fisher collaborate to increase patient access to precision cancer medicines

Bayer AG and Thermo Fisher Scientific have announced to develop next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based companion diagnos...

March 20, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Samsung Medison partners with Italy-based Bracco Imaging for diagnostic ultrasound technology

South Korea-based Samsung Medison and Italy headquartered Bracco Imaging have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

March 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Lunit delivers AI-powered cancer screening solution to France and Portugal

Lunit, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, has...

March 18, 2024 | Monday | News
Revvity introduces new workflow to accelerate newborn sequencing research

American firm Revvity, Inc. has announced the introduction of a flexible end-to-end workflow solution&nbs...

March 15, 2024 | Friday | News
Scientists in Hong Kong invent non-invasive diagnostic device for chronic kidney disease

A team of scientists at the Department of Health Technology and Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University...

March 15, 2024 | Friday | News
Beckman Coulter expands collaboration with Fujirebio for neurodegenerative disease assays

American firm Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a clinical diagnostics leader, and Japan-based Fujirebio, a leader in neurolo...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Researchers in Australia develop blood-based marker to identify sleep deprivation

A blood test that can accurately detect when someone has not slept for 24 hours has been developed by a Monash Universit...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea develops healthcare device to track chronic diabetic wounds​

A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has developed digital healthcare t...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Lunit expands AI medical imaging solutions in East & Southeast Asia

Lunit, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, has...

March 11, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea designs transparent ultrasound transducer to revolutionise biomedical imaging technology

Researchers from the Department of Convergence IT Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the School ...

March 11, 2024 | Monday | News
India's Agilus Diagnostics to launch advanced laboratory facility in Oman

Agilus Diagnostics, India-based diagnostic laboratory chain, has announced its collaboration with SEAS International LLC...

March 7, 2024 | Thursday | News
China Life Science Conference and China Life Science Expo (CILSE) Set to Drive Innovation and Collaboration in Guangzhou

The China Association for Science and Technology (CAS) Consortium of Life Sciences Societies is proud to announce the ...

March 7, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japanese firm Eisai invests $15 M in US-based C2N Diagnostics to simplify Alzheimer's detection

Japan-headquartered pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co. has announced that its US subsidiary Eisai Inc. has decided to in...

March 6, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Toyoda Gosei invests in Japanese startup developing urine test kits for early cancer detection

Toyoda Gosei Co. has invested in Craif, Inc., a startup out of Nagoya University, Japan that develops urine te...

March 5, 2024 | Tuesday | News
China's MGI Tech and Eurofins Genomics elevate precision health with sequencer technologies

China-based MGI Tech has announced a milestone collaboration with Eurofins Genomics Europe Genotyping A/S, which ha...

March 4, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea using new rapid test for early outbreak control of Hantavirus

Orthohantaviruses, highly transmissible zoonotic pathogens, are notorious for causing haemorrhagic fever with renal synd...

March 1, 2024 | Friday | News
VinBrain & Global Fund to tackle Vietnam's tuberculosis challenge through AI in 2024

VinBrain, a Vietnam-based health-tech startup, has officially signed a commercial agreement with Global Fund to transfer...

February 29, 2024 | Thursday | News
Researchers in Florida & Taiwan design device to detect breast cancer biomarkers from saliva drop

Researchers from the University of Florida, US and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan have reported succ...

February 26, 2024 | Monday | News
Korean startup Kakao Brain launches web-based radiology report service

South Korea's startup Kakao Brain has unveiled the research use only (RUO) web-based solution powered by "KARA-CXR" (Kak...

February 26, 2024 | Monday | News
BD & Camtech Health to increase access to cervical cancer screening in Singapore

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has announced a strategic partnership with Camtech Health, a digital health comp...

February 21, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Neuroscientists in Hong Kong develop blood test for Alzheimer's & mild cognitive impairment

An international research collaboration has achieved a significant milestone in Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and m...

February 20, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Noul becomes first Korean diagnostic company to join Swiss Malaria Group

South Korea-based health tech startup Noul Co. has announced that its European subsidiary (noul GmbH) has become an offi...

February 13, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Indonesia develops biosensor-based tool for detecting neurological disorders

A team of students from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Indonesia has created an innovative Rapid Diagnostic ...

February 12, 2024 | Monday | News
MGI to bring genomics products to ADK Hospital in the Maldives

China-based MGI Tech, a company committed to building core tools and technology to lead life science, has announced the ...

February 9, 2024 | Friday | News
QIAGEN expands syndromic diagnostic portfolio to Singapore

QIAGEN's QIAstat-Dx Meningitis/Encephalitis Panel, a qualitative multiplexed nucleic acid-based in vitro diagnostic...

February 7, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Qritive drives AI adoption in pathology and diagnosis across India

Singapore headquartered QritiveTM, a leading provider of AI solutions for pathology labs worldwide, has partnered w...

February 6, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops new programme to assist in early breast cancer detection

A group of researchers, led by Assoc Prof Ng Yin Kwee from NTU’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (M...

February 7, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Labcorp launches new test for risk assessment and prognosis of severe preeclampsia in pregnant women

Labcorp, a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, has announced the launch and availability ...

February 1, 2024 | Thursday | News
“AI's superior speed & learning capability make it a natural fit for healthcare tasks demanding precision & early detection”

How did VinBrain come into existence?  After 26 years abroad, spending 13 years as the Director of Engineering and...

February 1, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
BD, Techcyte to offer AI-based digital cervical cytology system for pap testing

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), US-based medical technology company, and Techcyte, a world leader in artificial inte...

January 31, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Agilent partners with Incyte to develop advanced companion diagnostics in haematology and oncology

American firm Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced an agreement with US-based Incyte, an American...

January 31, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Researchers in Korea develop sweat resistant wearable robot sensor​

New electromyography (EMG) sensor technology that allows the long-term stable control of wearable robots and is not affe...

January 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea's Seegene enhances automated diagnostic reagent development system with Microsoft

Seegene Inc., a leading South Korean company providing a total solution for PCR molecular diagnostics, has announced its...

January 25, 2024 | Thursday | News
Fujirebio & Agappe ink business collaboration for CLIA based immunoassay products

Japan-based Fujirebio Holdings and Indian firm Agappe Diagnostics have entered into an agreement of Contract Development...

January 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Lord's Mark Industries targets export of 6.55 M+ diagnostic supplies to SAARC countries

With the recent launch of Export Division for diagnostic supplies by LordsMed, the global healthcare division of India-b...

January 19, 2024 | Friday | News
Australia approves Immunexpress' sepsis diagnostic device

Immunexpress,  a molecular diagnostic company based in Brisbane and Seattle, has announced that Sept...

January 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Orbis International & NIDEK scale up AI-based eye screenings in Vietnam

Orbis International has announced an important in-kind and financial donation from NIDEK to support Orbis's ar...

January 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia-based medical device firm Mediven partners with Caring Pharmacy Group

Medical Innovation Ventures Sdn. Bhd. (Mediven), a leading Malaysian-based medical device company, has collaborated with...

January 15, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan approves first at-home migraine treatment in the form of Neurolief's neuromodulation device

US-based Neurolief has announced the approval of its neuromodulation device, Relivion, by the Japanese Ministry of Healt...

January 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Illumina expands collaboration with Janssen to advance molecular residual disease cancer test

American firm Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has signed an agreement wit...

January 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan introduces world's first machine learning model to screen Alzheimer's disease

Japan-based Oita University and pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co. have announced the development of the world's first machin...

January 2, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Roche buys LumiraDx’s Point-of-Care technology for more than $300 M

Swiss firm Roche has announced the entry into a definitive agreement to acquire select parts of the UK-based LumiraDx gr...

December 31, 2023 | Sunday | News
“We are looking at NIPT, cancer screening tests, and infectious disease surveillance as growth areas”

BGI Genomics has a strong foundation in supporting the Human Genome Project. How has the organisation evolved over the y...

December 31, 2023 | Sunday | Opinion
“The Open Innovation Program has become a trend in the molecular diagnostics industry”

Molecular diagnostics (MDx) is a powerful tool in healthcare. Could you explain why it's considered the most effective m...

January 11, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
Singapore takes step forward in diagnosing severe cases of dengue

Scientists and clinicians at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National Centre for Inf...

December 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
South Korea's Lunit buys NZ-based Volpara Health Technologies for $193 M

South Korea-based startup Lunit, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnos...

December 15, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia invests $15 M to open medical imaging facility for research & clinical use

The Australian National Total Body PET Facility officially opens in Sydney, delivering the first Total Body Positron...

December 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
China's MGI Tech takes cutting-edge DNA, Cell and Spatial Omics capabilities to Australia

MGI Australia, a subsidiary of China headquartered MGI Tech Co., a global leader in life science technology, has announc...

December 15, 2023 | Friday | News
AstraZeneca & Roche Diagnostics to improve diagnostic testing for breast cancer patients in India

AstraZeneca Pharma India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Roche Diagnostics India to improve diagnost...

December 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China-based HaploX partners with Illumina to build benchtop sequencing system

US-based Illumina, a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, and HaploX, a China-based high-t...

December 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
New Medical Imaging Research Centre opens in New Zealand

A Medical Imaging Research Centre has been launched in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckl...

December 11, 2023 | Monday | News
Revvity launches easy-to-use molecular diagnostics workflow for newborn screening

US-based Revvity, Inc. has announced the launch of its EONIS™ Q system, a CE-IVD declared platform ...

November 27, 2023 | Monday | News
“The cancer diagnostics industry is on the cusp of substantial growth, attributed to an ageing population”

What are the new technologies you are offering? Our game-changing, non-invasive, portable rapid cancer diagnostic syste...

December 2, 2023 | Saturday | News
Fapon accelerates development of diagnostic ecosystem in Indonesia

Fapon, a global leading life sciences organisation, has unveiled its innovative integrated solutions for diagnostics and...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Asep Medical signs Joint Venture agreement with Sansure Biotech in China

Canada-based Asep Medical Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary Sepset Biosciences Inc., has signed a definitive jo...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News

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