Mental health clinical trials receive funding worth $14.8 M in Australia

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2022

Seven clinical trials testing the use of potential breakthrough combination therapies to treat debilitating mental illne...Read more

US-based Allay Therapeutics expands operations in Singapore

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2022

Allay Therapeutics, a US-based clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering ultra-sustained analgesic products to tra...Read more

Australia injects $5.5 M for clinical trials to treat low-survival breast cancers

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Jan, 2022

Two clinical trials which could save lives through new therapies to treat breast cancers that have low rates of survival...Read more

Korean firms to develop new compounds for potential anti-seizure medication

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Jan, 2022

BIORCHESTRA and SK Biopharmaceuticals, based in South Korea, have forged a partnership to research and develop new ...Read more

Korean firm GC Cell to expand availability of Immuncell-LC for liver cancer

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Jan, 2022

South Korea-based GC Cell and Indian firm Rivaara Immune have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement, pursuant to...Read more

Japan opts for drug repurposing to stop dementia

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Jan, 2022

Via drug repositioning, a team of scientists at the Osaka City University in Japan has created a combination of rifampic...Read more

Australia identifies drivers of kidney disease

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Dec, 2021

For the first time, researchers from Australian National University have identified a gene which shows the kidney has it...Read more

Hong Kong establishes Centre for Chinese Herbal Medicine Drug Development

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Dec, 2021

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has established the Centre for Chinese Herbal Medicine Drug Development (CDD), which...Read more

Australia forms world-first consortium to fight global blindness

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Dec, 2021

Australian leaders in corneal bioengineering have collaborated to form BIENCO, a consortium to develop bioengineered eye...Read more

Nasal spray to fight COVID-19 heads to clinical trial in Australia

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2021

An at-home nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 will be put to the test by Melbourne biomedical researchers, as the Univer...Read more

Australia links walking style with ‘future osteoarthritis’

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Dec, 2021

The way people move and unconsciously place pressure on certain joints when walking could play a role in future onset an...Read more

New Zealand confirms skin infections as cause of rheumatic fever

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Dec, 2021

Researchers at University of Otago in New Zealand have made a major breakthrough in further understanding acute rheumati...Read more

One antibody to neutralise both Zika & Dengue viruses in different ways: Singapore study

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Dec, 2021

A research team from the Department of Biological Sciences and the Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singa...Read more

Australia works on retinal immune cells for preventing diabetes-related vision loss

Therapeutics |  News | 1 Comment | 21 Dec, 2021

New research could form the basis for developing life-changing therapies that limit the impact of diabetic eye disease, ...Read more

Singapore develops algorithm to assess immunotherapy benefit in stomach cancer patients

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Dec, 2021

Recent clinical studies indicate that patients with stomach cancer treated with a combination of immunotherapy and chemo...Read more

Korea offers accurate early cancer diagnosis with a drop of blood

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2021

Liquid biopsy, which detects tumor DNAs in the blood, is not only more convenient than the biopsy that requires collecti...Read more

Australia connects differences in brain structure and genetics with chronic pain

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Dec, 2021

Genetic factors partly explain the link between brain structure and chronic pain, according to Australia's University of...Read more

Singapore explores link between Zika virus infection and birth defects

Therapeutics |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Dec, 2021

The Zika virus shunts carbon atoms away from the important glucose metabolism pathway in infected foetuses, leading to a...Read more