India biotech rides on biologics manufacturing

A large chunk of the Indian firms are also looking at contract manufacturing of biologic products for western companies....

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Dr Brian McNamee: The force behind CSL

A doctor by training, Dr Brian A McNamee was enjoying himself in various job roles starting out as product manager, a jo...

April 12, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Is repeated MRI harmful to brain? FDA investigates

Singapore: FDA is investigating the risk of brain deposits following repeated use of gadolinium-based contrast agents (G...

July 28, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Taiwan's ITRI showcases biomedical innovations

Singapore: Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) celebrated BIO Day on August 30th with a focus on pe...

September 1, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Chinese Ebola diagnostic kit receives WHO nod

Singapore: Shanghai's ZJ Biotech recently announced that its Ebola diagnostic kit has received the WHO nod. The kit was ...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | News
Chemistry Nobel winner, Dr Irwin Rose, dies at 88

Singapore: Dr Irwin Rose, an American biologist, who shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for the discovery of cell b...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | Influencers
Agilent, A*Star, French univ sign biologics MoU

Singapore: Agilent Technologies, Glyco-MEV laboratory at the University of Rouen, France, and Bioprocessing Technology I...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Green Cross to expand biologics market in Russia

Singapore: Korea based biopharmaceutical company, Green Cross, has partnered with Nanolek, a Russian pharmaceutical comp...

April 3, 2015 | Friday | News
Green Cross builds biopharmaceutical facility in Canada

Singapore: Korea's Green Cross Biotherapeutics has started the construction of its biopharmaceutical facility located on...

June 5, 2015 | Friday | News
China Biologic clocks 19% growth in 2014 turnover

Singapore: China Biologic Products clocked $243.3 million in 2014, marking a jump of 19.6 percent from 2013 that scaled ...

March 5, 2015 | Thursday | Company results
Baxter initiates clinical trial for home hemodialysis system

Singapore: Baxter International has announced the enrollment of the first patient in a US clinical trial for VIVIA, an i...

March 16, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Biocon gets DCGI nod for psoriasis drug itolizumab

Bangalore: Biocon received marketing authorization from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for its novel biolo...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Genovate biotech to invest $1bn in China

Singapore: Genovate Biotechnology, Taiwan based pharmaceutical company, has started the construction of phase I of its I...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
New breakthrough in dementia research

Singapore: Researchers at the Taipei-based Academia Sinica announced that they have discovered a new molecule that aids ...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Potential biomarker for cancer diagnosis identified

Singapore: Scientists studying cancer development have known about micronuclei for some time. These erratic, small extra...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
World's first IVF born after DNA sequencing

Singapore: The world's first test tube baby to have undergone an embryo selection using a procedure that can read the en...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Merck to market single-use fill solutions with Groninger

Singapore: Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck has signed a co-marketing agreement with Germany based Gr...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News