Novartis gets EU nod for psoriasis biologic drug

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Novartis, has recieved European Commission (EC) nod for Cosentyx (secukinumab,...

January 20, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Sartorius Stedim enhances single-use product portfolio

Singapore: Biotechnology supplier company, Sartorius Stedim Biotech, has launched new range of single-use bags, under it...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Takeda partners with Nanotherapeutics to expand influenza vaccine program

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has recieved expanded commercialization and technology access rights related to Nanothe...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
China ramps up efforts to curb Ebola

Singapore: The Chinese mobile laboratory stationed at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital at Jui, is playing an i...

December 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops animal-free screening platform to predict nephrotoxicity

Singapore: Researchers from Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have developed an animal-fr...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
A*Star peptides help understand Alzheimer's, cancer

Singapore: A new class of ultrasmall peptides developed by A*Star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN)...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Anteo Diagnostics to acquire Belgium Dx firm

Singapore: Australia based Anteo Diagnostics has decided to acquire DIAsource ImmunoAssays, (DIAsource), a global specia...

August 27, 2015 | Thursday | News
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
Nuvilex licenses Austrianova's livecell encapsulation technology

Singapore: Nuvilex, an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions forthe treatment of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
We scaled back operations at our Mumbai R&D unit: Piramal

Singapore: The global CRAMS (Contract Research and Manufacturing Services) segment is becoming intensely competitive. Co...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
Bone marrow banking is a possibility in future

Singapore: More than 50,000 stem cell transplants are performed each year worldwide. A research team led by US-based Wei...

March 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Patrys' cancer diagnostic gets Australian govt grant

Singapore: Australia based clinical stage biotechnology company Patrys' scientific collaborators at Macquarie University...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Scientists unravel proteins that mediates sense of touch

Singapore: Solving a long standing mystery, the researchers at the Scripps Research Institute have identified a new mech...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
China develops Ebola diagnostic tests

Singapore: The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said in a statement that top health authorities had approved th...

December 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Singapore regulatory grants cGMP certificate to Lonza

Singapore: Biologics manufacturing global firm, Lonza Bioscience, has received cGMP certification from Singapore Health ...

April 21, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
NUS, Thermo Fisher Scientific strike alliance

Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) and Life Sciences Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific have struck a stra...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
China Biologic's subsidiary signs plasma sourcing deal

Singapore: Guizhou Taibang Biological Products, subsidiary of China Biologic Product, has collaborated  with Xinjiang D...

September 4, 2015 | Friday | News
Medicago, Mitsubishi to co-cultivate plants

Singapore: Medicago is collaborating with Mitsubishi Chemical to evaluate the latter's closed cultivation Plant Factory ...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
WuXi Biologics to build world's largest biologics facility

Singapore: Wuxi Biologics, a wholly owned subsidiary of China-based WuXi PharmaTech, recently announced that it has begu...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Samsung JV seeks second biosimilar approval in Europe

Singapore: Samsung Bioepis, a joint venture between Samsung Biologics and Biogen Idec, has submitted marketing authoriza...

March 16, 2015 | Monday | News
Merck, China firm to co-develop DNA repair drug

‎Singapore: Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, has signed a global licensing, co-development, ...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Austrinova opens new facility in Singapore

Singapore: Singapore based biotech firm, Austrianova, has opened a new facility in Singapore to perform research and dev...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
China Biologic subisdiary gets GMP tag

Singapore: Plasma-based biopharmaceutical company, China Biologic Products' subsidiary firm, Shandong Taibang Biological...

December 24, 2014 | Wednesday | News
NUS team pioneers a novel technique to deliver biologicals

Singapore: Researchers at the National University of Singapore have invented a novel technique to administer pain-killer...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Hope for COPD: Network Verification Challenge

Singapore: The Network Verification Challenge has generated a comprehensive set of biological models relevant to chroni...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | News
Amgen unveils new plant in Asia

Singapore: US-based Amgen enters the Asian market with its new 'next-generation' biomanufacturing facility in Singapore....

November 24, 2014 | Monday | News
A*STAR, Japanese bank ink partnership

Singapore: Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporat...

August 20, 2014 | Wednesday | News
AmpliPhi, SPH to combat antibiotic-resistant super bugs

Singapore: Australia-based AmpliPhi Biosciences is looking to acquire Brookvale, a Sydney-based Special Phage Services (...

September 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
FUJIFILM expands cell manufacturing capacity

Singapore: Gobal contract manufacturing firm, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, has expanded its cell culture manufactu...

August 20, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Biocon starts academy to train biotech professionals

Bangalore: In a first for Asia's bioscience industry, India's leading biotech company, Biocon has started an academy to ...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Molecular painting sparks biologics research

At the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, Dr John Dangerfield and Dr Brian Salmons along with Dr Chri...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Making kidney dialysis cheaper and quicker

Singapore: Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, India have developed a unique membrane that can eff...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Hospira recalls plum infusion pump for over blood delivery risk

Singapore: FDA has stated that biologic drug company, Hospira, has identified an incorrect set component supplied and us...

March 19, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Pharmaxis, Synairgen to develop drugs for fatal lung disease

Singapore: Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis, and UK biotechnology company, Synairgen, have entered into a res...

August 6, 2015 | Thursday | News
BioTime appoints Adi Mohanty as COO

Singapore: Stem cell therapy company, BioTime, has appointed Mr Adi Mohanty, ex-Shire executive, as chief operating offi...

December 30, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Baxter inaugurates biologics facility in Singapore

Singapore: Baxter International has launched an advanced recombinant biologic facility in Singapore. The suite supports...

August 7, 2014 | Thursday | News
Baxter recalls dialysis solution

Singapore: Baxter is voluntarily initiating a recall of two lots of DIANEAL Low Calcium Peritoneal Dialysis Solution wit...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
CFDA approves peripheral T-cell lymphoma drug

‎Singapore: Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved Chidamide (Epidaza), an orally administrated ...

January 12, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
Austrianova's encapsulated cell to treat pancreatic cancer

Singapore: Singapore-based Austrianova's encapsulated cell technology has demonstrated to treat pancreatic cancer in a p...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
New testing kit fast tracks Ebola diagnosis

Singapore: Japanese researchers at the Nagasaki University announced that they have developed a new diagnostic technique...

September 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Implantable device to regulate insulin in Diabetics

Singapore: In a bid to provide relief to the millions of insulin injecting patients, bioengineers from Basel have develo...

August 13, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Dr Gautam Daftary: The Indian biologics pioneer

Indian company Bharat Serums and Vaccines boasts of a product portfolio that includes many firsts in India and the world...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
China Biologic raises equity share to 76%

Singapore: China Biologic Products has acquired an additional 19.84 percent equity interest in Guizhou Taibang Biologica...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
German, Korean firm join hands to discover cancer drugs

Singapore: Germany's translational drug discovery organization, Lead Discovery Center (LDC), has entered into a licence ...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | News
Lonza to invest $15 mn in antibody manufacturing

Singapore: Lonza plans to invest $15.07 million (S$18.5 million) to expand its antibody drug conjugate (ADC) manufacturi...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | News
WuXi AppTec invests $120mn to build new biologics facility

Singapore: WuXi AppTec has started construction of an integrated biologics solution center at the company's headquarters...

January 11, 2016 | Monday | News
Aussie firm's new breakthrough in bladder cancer

Singapore: Australia-based startup company Sienna Cancer Diagnostics, has inked a pact with an American pathology compan...

January 10, 2015 | Saturday | News
Austrianova inaugurates its Thailand facility

Singapore: Austrianova, a Singapore-based cell-encapsulation company recently announced the opening of its manufacturing...

December 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Israel firm gets US, China patent for neuro-peptide

Singapore: Israel-based D-Pharm has recieved new patent in the US and China, related to composition and use of THR-18, a...

October 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Singapore scientists find new clues on cervical cancer

Singapore: A team of scientists from Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of...

December 9, 2015 | Wednesday | News
3SBio to develop antibody for acute leukemia

Singapore: Chinese biotechnology firm, 3SBio, has signed an exclusive license with Korean firm, DiNonA  for the develop...

August 8, 2014 | Friday | News
Detect drug resistant TB in a jiffy

Singapore: Soon, a simple breath test will detect whether a person is infected with a drug resistant tuberculosis strain...

September 25, 2014 | Thursday | News
Breast cancer boasts of highest drug pipeline'

Singapore: Breast cancer therapeutics pipeline has higher innovation in first-in-class molecules, with many new technolo...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | News
AbbVie aquires API manufacturing firm in Singapore

Singapore: AbbVie, a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott, h...

November 25, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Test to detect bird flu mutants

Singapore: Australian scientists have developed a new test that can detect bird flu mutation by distinguishing between b...

November 3, 2014 | Monday | News
Ebola vaccine trial update

Singapore: WHO, in consultation with over 70 experts, is assessing the status of two Ebola vaccine candidates for their ...

October 3, 2014 | Friday | News
Roche to acquire Santaris Pharma for $450 mn

Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical firm, Roche, is all set to acquire Santaris Pharma, a Denmark based biopharmaceutica...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Beike awaits CFDA nod for stem cell application

Singapore: China-based Beike Biotechnology has recieved Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) nod for filing the a...

July 14, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
Danish firm, Aussie instiute to co-develop pathological drugs

Singapore: Danish firm, Mirrx Therapeutics and Australia's Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology has f...

November 8, 2013 | Friday | News
WHO sets timeline for ebola vaccine

Singapore: From September 29-30, 2014, WHO organized an expert consultation to assess the groundwork of ebola vaccine de...

October 3, 2014 | Friday | News
BI to enhance investment in Austria

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim plans to establish a new large-scale biopharmaceutical production facility for active in...

December 28, 2015 | Monday | News
China Cord Blood gets US accredition

Singapore: Guangdong subsidiary of China Cord Blood Corporation, a provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Asthma therapy market to touch $23.1 bn by 2023

Singapore: Asthma treatment market value will grow from approximately USD15.9 billion in 2013, across eight major countr...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Nanodiamonds can be an effective cancer drug carrier

Singapore: A study led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that attaching chemotherapy drug Epirubic...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
India firm launches biosimilar for autoimmune disease

Singapore: India-based Zydus Cadila has launched the biosimilar of Adalimumab, indicated for the treatment of auto immun...

December 10, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China Biologic to manufacture PCC at Shandong Taibang facility

Singapore: China Biologic Products, China-based biopharmaceutical company, has received China Food and Drug Administrati...

October 20, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
NIH discovers new animal model for MERS testing

Singapore: Researchers at the National Institute of Health (NIH) have found that immune responses instigated by MERS inf...

August 27, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi and Boehringer to manufacture biologics

Singapore: Under the terms of the agreement, Sanofi will have access to Boehringer Ingelheim's capabilities in Biberach ...

January 19, 2015 | Monday | News
Singapore invests in microbial detection technology firm

Singapore: Singapore Economic Development Board has invested in Rapid Micro Biosystems, a provider of automated, non-des...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Study: Telomerase causes inflammation in cancer

Singapore: A*STAR scientists have identified the enzyme, telomerase, as a cause of chronic inflammation in human cancers...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Genentech injects $285 mn in biologics manufacturing

Singapore: Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, plans to invest more than USD285 million for the expansion of its bio...

October 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Drug delivery device to self administer biologics

Singapore: US based Mystic Pharmaceuticals has developed a drug delivery device that enables patients to self administer...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Gene expression for personalized medicine: Report

Singapore: Gene expression profiling can bring significant improvements to disease profiling and diagnoses based on gene...

June 10, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
ParkwayHealth offers HBsAg Quantitative Assay

Singapore: ParkwayHealth Laboratory, a clinical laboratory service provider in Singapore, is to provide Hepatitis B Surf...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Rheumatoid arthritis mAb market to reach $15.7 bn

Singapore: Since 2004, the market for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has experienced tremendo...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Amgen & Astellas form JV, will co-develop biologics

Singapore: US-based Amgen and Japanese firm Astellas Pharma have entered into a strategic alliance to co-develop and co-...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | News
Diagnostic kit to assess kidney cancer treatment result

Singapore: Researchers at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Nat...

August 1, 2014 | Friday | News
Singapore scientists find new pattern in immune cell mechanism

Singapore: Scientists from A*STAR's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have identified relationship between two ce...

October 2, 2014 | Thursday | News
miRNA tools market clocked $110 mn in 2012: Frost

Singapore: Rapid growth in microRNA (miRNA) research over the past two years, which is fuelled by its diagnostic and the...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
China to offer personalized chemotherapy

Singapore: China-based Fosun diagnostics and Saladax Biomedical announced the launch of MyCare assay tests for chemother...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Green Cross to set up cell therapy plant in China

Singapore: Green Cross, South Korean biopharmaceutical company, is expanding its manufacturing base by building a new ce...

April 30, 2015 | Thursday | News
Takeda partners with Monash University

Singapore: The Japanese pharma major Takeda, recently announced that the company has entered into a strategic partnershi...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Taiwan researchers find link between obesity and arterial stiffness

Singapore: According to a recent research at Taiwan based National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), obesity leads to a redu...

December 29, 2014 | Monday | News

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