Bioxyne to report COPD trial results in June

Singapore: Australian company Bioxyne closed its 320-patient study, which was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safe...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Start-ups redefining the industry

Life sciences industry in the Asia Pacific recorded the double digit growth of 16.6 percent, reaching $128.26 billion in...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aussie researchers find protein link to STI susceptibility

Singapore: Australia's Monash Institute of Medical Research scientists have found a protein in the female reproductive t...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mesoblast receives positive result in RA drug trial

Singapore: Regenerative medicine company Mesoblast has received positive results in a large animal model of rheumatoid a...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Biotron completes clinical stage of HIV trial

Singapore: Australian drug development company Biotron has completed the clinical stage of a landmark phase Ib/IIa proo...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Myriad gene patenting suit ends on a win-win note

In the legal case of Myriad Genetics vs Association for Molecular Pathology, the US Supreme Court's verdict unanimously ...

June 17, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
TranScrip CRO expands in Australia

Singapore: UK-based contract organization TranScrip Partners launched its operations in Australia. TranScrip Partners su...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Benitec acquires RNAi firm along with hepatitis program

Singapore: Benitec Biopharma announced the acquisition of US-based RNA interference (RNAi) or gene silencing therapeuti...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
Phylogica protein libraries are now 47-fold larger

Singapore: Australia-based Phylogica has successfully completed a major upgrade to its proprietary Phylomer libraries o...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Aussie firm Phebra inaugurates manufacturing unit

Singapore: Sydney-based pharmaceutical company Phebra has inaugurated its $25 million manufacturing facilities at Lane C...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Phospagenics, Nippon Zoki to develop pain drug

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has extended its collaboration with its high calib...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
DSM Pharma, DecImmune sign antibody deal

Singapore: Australia's DSM Pharmaceutical, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, has signed an ...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Flu vaccine reduces heart attack risk

Singapore: Regular shots of influenza injections have the added benefit of reducing the risk of heart attacks in people ...

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | News
M&A activity slows down in APAC

In 2011, the number of mergers and acquisitions in the life sciences field of Asia Pacific witnessed a fall. An indepen...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Viralytics melanoma study shows +ve results

Singapore: Assistant Professor (Dr) Robert H I Andtbacka presented a summary of his ongoing study with Viralytics' Cavat...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Stem cell industry has substantial growth potential

The Nobel prize for Physiology to two stem cell research scientists in 2012 has firmly put the spotlight on this promisi...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Prima BioMed announces changes in senior management

Singapore: Australian firm Prima BioMed suggested several changes to its senior management and its board of directors, w...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | News
Genetic diagnostics usher in a new era in healthcare

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, scientists now have a set of tools that can be readily used to understand the comple...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis