AVATAMED, A*STAR open joint lab for precision oncology services in Singapore

AVATAMED, a precision medicine service company based in Singapore, has announced the setting up of a joint lab with...

June 1, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers way to predict chemotherapy resistance

Ovarian cancer is usually treated with platinum-based chemotherapy; however, a significant number of patients are resist...

May 31, 2021 | Monday | News
Zimmer Biomet's ROSA Knee System recognized for Orthopaedic innovation

Zimmer Biomet, a global leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, announced that Zimmer Biomet's ROSA Knee was awarded the O...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore develops new biomaterial to aid in bone repair

A research team at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed a new biomaterial to ...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
Largest private fundraising round by Asia-based life sciences firm

Singapore-based Esco Lifesciences has announced the close of an over-subscribed $200 million Series A and Cros...

May 27, 2021 | Thursday | News
IFC and Mitsui to invest US$60M in Singapore-based MiCare Health Technologies

MiCare HealthTEC Holdings Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Zuellig Pharma and a leading medical claims ...

May 27, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore approves new storage condition for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has approved the new storage condition for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19...

May 26, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Driving medical and clinical resource optimization strategy in APAC healthcare

The gushing impact of the pandemic is strengthening medical/clinical research analytics through digital transformation. ...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
Hummingbird Bioscience raises US$125 Million with international biotech investors

Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing precision therapies against h...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore opens new centre to advance regenerative medicine

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) has announced the launch of a research institute and disease centr...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore provisionally approves breath test to detect COVID-19

An easy-to-use breath test that can accurately detect COVID-19 within a minute has received provisional authorisation fr...

May 24, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore proposes new holistic way of understanding infections

An international research team led by NTU Singapore has proposed a new holistic way of understanding infection...

May 21, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore extends use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) at Singapore has extended the authorisation of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for ...

May 19, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Surgery may lower mortality rate for obese adults: Singapore study

Adults with severe obesity who undergo metabolic-bariatric surgery (MBS) to lose weight, may have substantially lower mo...

May 14, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore creates intelligent material for delivering drugs within body

Researchers from the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) ha...

May 13, 2021 | Thursday | News
ERS Genomics and GenScript sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement

ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-...

May 12, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore, India partnership yield novel blood-based cancer diagnostic tool

Singapore based Tzar Labs, in collaboration with Indian firm Epigeneres Biotechnology, has developed a novel blood ...

May 12, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore advances stem cell technology to first-in-man clinical trial

Institutes and centres under the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) are joining hands together with Singa...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News