Singapore develops algorithm to assess immunotherapy benefit in stomach cancer patients

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

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore establishes pancreas transplantation service as national programme

With the approval by the Ministry of Health (Singapore) for the pancreas transplantation service as a national programme...

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore deploys 3D printing to make knee brace for elderly

A lighter, yet more robust knee brace for the elderly who suffer from knee problems has been developed locally by Singap...

December 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore explores link between Zika virus infection and birth defects

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

December 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore identifies new bacteria to better understand infections

  Singapore scientists have identified and named a new species of bacteria, Staphylococcus singaporensis sp.nov, n...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore extends use of Pfizer vaccine for children of age 5 to 11

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has extended the authorisation of Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer-...

December 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore develops anti-coagulant drugs from tick parasite

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a series of thrombin inhibitors to b...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore develops COVID-19 saliva amplified antigen rapid test

A potentially game-changing Antigen Rapid Test (ART) technology to diagnose COVID-19 has been developed by scientists in...

December 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore reveals why chemotherapy fails for some blood cancer patients

Mutations in a crucial gene are the key reason that chemotherapy fails in some patients with blood cancer, a study by Na...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore secures additional supply of mAb sotrovimab for COVID-19 treatment

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Singapore has announced an agreement with the Government of Singapore to supply additional doses o...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hilleman Lab establishes a pilot manufacturing facility for vaccine development in Singapore

Hilleman Laboratories, an organisation with a mission to develop affordable vaccines and biologics against infectious di...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's Delta launches UV light disinfection series against bacteria and viruses

Singapore's Delta Electronics Int’l, has found an effective disinfectant way to inactivate viruses and b...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore launches supercomputer resource to support national AI Healthcare Initiatives

On Dec 3rd, 2021, Singapore's NSCC (National Supercomputing Centre Singapore) and NUHS (National University Health Syste...

December 3, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore start-up uses a realistic 4D model of human skin as an alternative to animal testing

Singapore start-up Revivo BioSystems receives investment from German specialty chemicals company Evonik supporting the d...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Tackling onerousness drug development process through cost-effective genomic analysis platforms

The limitations of the existing drug discovery paradigm reveals that there are still no effective prevention or real cur...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | Opinion
New study in Singapore provides fundamentals of memory formation

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that the little-known CA2 hippocampal, a small...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
NUHS Builds AI Production Platform Using NVIDIA DGX A100 For Better Healthcare Predictions

NVIDIA today announced that National University Health System (NUHS) has built an AI production platform based on an NVI...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore finds new insights on sexual dysfunction among midlife women

A large-scale study led by the National University Health System (NUHS) on sexual activity in midlife women in Singapore...

November 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News