Lucence Diagnostics Singapore Lab receives CLIA certification

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Sep, 2019

International precision medicine firm Lucence Diagnostics has announced that it has received the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification for its laboratory in Singap...Read more

Philips highlights importance of early detection of heart disease

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Sep, 2019

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, is putting the spotlight on early detection and prevention of heart disease – a leading cause of death globally and a clinically s...Read more

NTU builds chip to analyse health of immune system

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Sep, 2019

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a lab-on-a-chip system that can identify the health aspects of a person’s immune s...Read more

Proteona Oncology Challenge using ESCAPE™ Single Cell Proteogenomic Analysis

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Sep, 2019

Proteona Pte. Ltd. has announced the launch of the first Proteona Oncology Challenge, co-sponsored by NovogeneAIT. All scientists and clinicians working to solve major clinical problems in ...Read more

Researchers pinpoint cells, processes that lead to liver cancer

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Sep, 2019

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have identified a specific subset of self-regenerating liver cells that can transform into cancer cells and lead to the development of h...Read more

Wireless ultrasound and AI to auto-detect heart disease

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Sep, 2019

Heart disease may soon be detected remotely,  thanks to a wearable ultrasound device incorporating an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted Automatic Heart Diagnosis System (AHDS) to b...Read more

Dengue virus resists vaccines and therapeutics through mutations in specific protein

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Sep, 2019

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (DukeNUS), in collaboration with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Bioinformatics Institute (BII),  and the Univ...Read more

NUS team develops anti-cancer drug with less toxicity

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Sep, 2019

A team of National University of Singapore (NUS) pharmacists and chemists has developed a new anti-cancer drug that has less toxic effects to the kidneys. The new drug works like a &l...Read more

SMART announces revolutionary tech in cell nanomechanics

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Sep, 2019

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), has announced a revolutionary technology to study Cell Nanomechanics.  New research discovery of SMART, MIT’s Researc...Read more

RE:WELL REBELS launches retreats and wellness programmes

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Sep, 2019

RE:WELL REBELS is launching its first retreat at Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore from 1 to 3 November. People don't need to travel to an obscure location just to escape th...Read more

MedTech Innovator Selects 20 Best-in-Class Startups for Inaugural Asia Pacific Showcase

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2019

MedTech Innovator, the premier global nonprofit accelerator in the medical technology industry, has announced the 20 companies selected to participate in the organization’s Asia Pacif...Read more

Verita acquires award winning Timeblock

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2019

Verita Healthcare Group, a global provider of preventative, personalised healthcare and wellness clinics, has acquired a controlling position and global distribution rights for Timeblock&re...Read more

Universal Robots launches Heavy-Duty payload Cobot for collaborative automation

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2019

Universal Robots (UR), the most trusted and widely-deployed collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturer in the world, on 17 Sep 2019, announces the immediate availability of the UR16e whi...Read more

AIA promotes sleep sufficiency and quality around APAC

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2019

AIA Group Limited, unveiled an ambitious new initiative designed to help combat sleep deprivation - a critical health issue in Asia. The initiative, underpinned by a call to actio...Read more

NTU designs molecular probe to track disease progression

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Sep, 2019

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have synthesised a molecular probe that has the potential to track the development of liver disease and provide a...Read more

Cardiac fibrosis study identifies key proteins that translate into heart disease

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Sep, 2019

Using cutting-edge technologies, researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have developed the first genome-wide dataset on protein translation during fibroblast activation, reveali...Read more

A*STAR, JTC and Science Centre Singapore organise one-north Festival 2019

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Sep, 2019

The one-north festival is a celebration of research, innovation, creativity and enterprise. On 13th and 14th September 2019, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), JTC and Sc...Read more

Novel method developed to sequence complete genomes of infectious viruses

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Sep, 2019

NUS scientists in Singapore on 12 Sep 2019, have announced the development of a more efficient method to sequence the complete genomes of infectious diseases carried by mosquitoes directly ...Read more