Pictor receives funding boost to tackle COVID-19 and M. bovis

New Zealand’s Auckland-based biotechnology company Pictor has received a double funding boost from government and ...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Big Start helps businesses secure PPE gear

Australian medical supply innovator Big Start is being inundated with orders from around the world as companies seek to ...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Shionogi to develop prophylactic vaccine for COVID-19

Japan based Shionogi & Co., Ltd. has announced that Shionogi has officially made the decision to develop a prophylac...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Eppendorf expands production capacities for consumables

The Eppendorf Group is expanding its production capacity at the Oldenburg in Holstein site in Germany by building two ad...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's new COVID-19 test detects neutralising Ab without need of containment facility

Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), a research-intensive graduate-entry medical school, GenScript Biotech Corporation, a...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Mesoblast to scale up remestemcel-L manufacturing for COVID-19 ARDS

Australia based Mesoblast Limited, leader in cellular medicines for inflammatory diseases, announced that it has success...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Korea uses Life Park as COVID-19 treatment centre

Hanwha Group, a large business conglomerate in South Korea, is closely monitoring the COVID-19 global health crisis...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Exyte and Univercells combine forces for rapid deployment of COVID-19 vaccine

Exyte, world-renowned for the design and construction of high tech facilities, and Univercells Technologies, a prov...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher collaborates with WuXi Diagnostics

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced it will expand its response to the COVID-1...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
Taiwan to accelerate COVID-19 research with 3 new collaborations

Taiwan's National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) has announced its collaboration with three international tec...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
EU grants USD127M for COVID-19 treatment, diagnosis innovations

European Union Commission announced on 12 May 2020 that 8 large-scale research projects, aimed at developing treatments ...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
Gilead to supply Remdesivir to 127 countries

Gilead Sciences has struck a licensing agreement with five generic drugmakers to make antiviral drug remdesivir for...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Novena establishes new biz unit for PPE supplies

In current challenging times, Singapore based Novena Global Lifecare (NGL) pivots its business and is now appointed...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
South Korea employs centralized coordination to fight pandemic

US based Ariadne Labs has released an Evidence Brief titled "Protecting Health Care Workers in South Korea Dur...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
BioMed X launches Rapid Antiviral Response Platform

BioMed X, an independent research institute that identifies big biomedical research challenges and provides innovative s...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Remdesivir to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has grante...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine enters Ph 2 trial

US based Moderna, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
SESTO introduces autonomous mobile disinfectant robot

Singapore’s leading autonomous mobile robot company SESTO Robotics has launched a dual-function Autonomous Mobile ...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Avance reports 34% rise in clinical trials in Aus, NZ

The Australian CRO, Avance Clinical, said there was a 34% increase in the number of international trials registered in A...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves first CRISPR test for coronavirus detection

US based Sherlock Biosciences, an Engineering Biology company dedicated to making diagnostic testing better, faster and ...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Abbott Launches COVID-19 Antibody Test

Abbott has launched its third test for coronavirus (COVID-19) and is shipping tests to hospitals across the U.S. The te...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan objects triple antiviral drug therapy for COVID-19

Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) chief advisor Chang Shan-chwen recently mentioned that a triple antivira...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
China reports reduction of T cells in COVID-19 patients

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Zyus to develop plant-based vaccine for COVID-19

ZYUS Life Sciences Inc., a Canada based company dedicated to improving quality of life through research and leadership i...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Speedoc's Telemedicine Service to support Singaporeans during CB

Speedoc app users can now consult a Singapore-registered General Practitioner (GP) from Speedoc’s pool of over 50 ...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News