Vaxine announces COVID-19 vaccine collaboration with Medytox

Vaxine Pty Ltd., Adelaide, Australia announced that it has entered into a formal collaboration with Medytox Inc., a Kore...

May 27, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vayyar, Meditemi to create robot for COVID-19 screening

Israeli semiconductor company Vayyar Imaging, the world leader in 4D imaging sensor technology and Meditemi (J...

May 26, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fujifilm to use AI-based technology for COVID-19 diagnosis

Japan based FUJIFILM Corporation is commencing a research study to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technology...

May 26, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Cytiva, Takara Bio to scale up COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Cytiva (formerly part of GE Healthcare Life Sciences), a global provider of technologies and services that advance and a...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sherlock Biosciences accelerates diagnostics for COVID-19

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

May 25, 2020 | Monday | News
Sinovac secures $15 M for COVID-19 vaccine development

Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced a transaction in which Ad...

May 25, 2020 | Monday | News
Macrogen obtains export approval for COVID-19 test kit

The Korean biotech company Macrogen, announced that it obtained export approval for COVID-19 test kit 'AxenTM ...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
AGC Biologics partners with Takara Bio in COVID-19 fight

Denmark headquartered AGC Biologics, a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for Biopharmace...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
Ally Bridge finances US$150M to address healthcare challenges

Ally Bridge Group ("ABG"), a leading global life science investment group based in New York and Hong Kong...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca receives $1B for Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine

AstraZeneca is advancing its ongoing response to address the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19, collaborating with a ...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
China isolates potent neutralizing Abs against SARS-CoV-2

A team of researcher at Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG) at Peking University (PKU), China under th...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
Positive Correlation between Stress, Weight Gain And Physical Body Pain Observed

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives and livelihood of many people. It has caused insecurities, anxiety an...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Taiwan uses Big Data to counter coronavirus

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan has recently begun to collaborate with Facebook and Harvard University in...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
CanSino, Precision NanoSystems to co-develop COVID-19 RNA Vaccine

China based CanSino Biologics Inc. and Canada headquartered Precision NanoSystems (PNI) have announced a co-development ...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
VIVOTEK brings crowd control solution to tackle COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing has become a standard public health intervention around the world. It is...

May 20, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Essence partners with TeleHelp to protect seniors during COVID-19

Following a spike in cases of COVID-19 in Brazil, the City of Santos has deployed Essence SmartCare’s advance...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
Seegene exports 10 Mn corona tests to Brazil

Seegene Inc., a leading developer of multiplex PCR technologies headquartered in South Korea, announced that i...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
Temp Pal helps combat coronavirus in Taiwan

Taiwan based health-tech startup iWEECARE announced that its world's smallest wearable thermometer Temp Pal®, h...

May 19, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine shows positive interim Ph 1 results

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

May 20, 2020 | Wednesday | News
FDA encourages recovered COVID-19 patients to donate plasma

As part of the all-of-America approach to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been...

May 19, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore to develop rapid non-invasive tests for COVID-19

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has recei...

May 20, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Experian connects COVID-19 impacted consumers in Asia

Experian, the world leader in information services, 18 May 2020 announced that it is working with its existing telco par...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
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
Hummingbird closes extended Series B funding round of $25M

Singapore & US based Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative biotherapeutics company focused on the discovery and deve...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eurofins launches RT multiplex PCR test for COVID-19 detection

Eurofins Technologies announces the launch of its RT-PCR (polymerase chain reaction to reverse transcriptase chain react...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
BookDoc and WeDoctor announce strategic collaboration

Since the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia, BookDoc has been working tireless with...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Fullerton offers free COVID-19 symptom checker for Singapore

In its efforts to combat COVID-19 across Asia Pacific, Fullerton Health has announced that it has launched its COVI...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
CoVIg-19 plasma alliance building strong momentum

The CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance, an unprecedented plasma industry collaboration recently established to accelerate the deve...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
Chugai, A*STAR to develop therapeutic Ab against COVID-19

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo announced that Chugai Pharmabody Research Pte. Ltd. (CPR), a resea...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
Taiwan develops rapid 10-min Ab test kit for COVID-19

Taiwan's local biomedical company has developed a rapid antibody test kit for COVID-19  that can deliver resul...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Ajinomoto inks manufacturing agreement for COVID-19 drug

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing serviceswi...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech initiate human trials with COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE  announced on 5 May 2020 that the first participants have been dosed in the U.S. in the...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
Israel develops anti-coronavirus surface coating

The coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which is responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic, is transmitted between people mainl...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
DoctorxDentist to Donate Medical Supplies in Singapore

COVID-19 has been taking over all our lives and with many of the new cases linked to foreign worker dormitories in ...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Essence deploys technology to keep seniors safe

Essence Group, the leading provider of Internet of Things (IoT) based telecare solutions, have announced that their adva...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Bio-Rad receives FDA EUA for Droplet Digital PCR SARS-CoV-2 test kit

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc, a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, has announced that ...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Efficient COVID-19 blockchain surveillance backed China’s recovery

Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, China managed to launch its national blockchain-based service network (BSN) in April 2020...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan to create pandemic prevention product ecosystem

Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) has announced the creation of ecosystem of pandemic prevention produc...

May 5, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Phase II trial evaluating Kevzara looks promising to fight COVID-19

Regeneron and Sanofi recently announced the preliminary results from the Phase II portion of an ongoing Phase II/III tri...

May 5, 2020 | Tuesday | News
US to test BCG vaccine against COVID-19

Texas A&M University researchers are asking hundreds of frontline medical workers to participate in a late-stage, ph...

May 5, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Abbott brings COVID-19 antibody test to India

Abbott has announced that it has received CE Mark to the IVD Directive (98/79/EC) for its laboratory-based ser...

May 4, 2020 | Monday | News
Algernon re-purposes Ifenprodil drug against COVID-19

Canada based Algernon Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical development company, is pleased to anno...

May 4, 2020 | Monday | News
Atreca, BeiGene, IGM Biosciences to develop novel antibody treatment for COVID-19

US based companies Atreca, Inc., and IGM Biosciences, Inc.along with Chinese firm BeiGene, Ltd. have announced thei...

May 4, 2020 | Monday | News
FDA issues EUA to Gilead's Remdesivir for COVID-19 treatment

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use authoriza...

May 4, 2020 | Monday | News
Vaccitech, Oxford University tie up with AstraZeneca for COVID-19 vaccine

Vaccitech Ltd and the University of Oxford have announce an agreement with the UK-based global biopharmaceutical company...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
CEPI invests $3.5M in Clover Australia for COVID-19 vaccine

Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations has announced a ninth worldwide collaboration to ...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
Biolidics launches rapid test kit for COVID-19

A rapid test kit for COVID-19 launched by former National University of Singapore (NUS) startup company, medtech firm Bi...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
360biolabs supports first Australian COVID-19 vaccine trial

In one of the first COVID-19 clinical vaccine trials, US-based clinical-stage biotechnology company Novavax has selected...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan observes cross protection from COVID-19 by JEV

A significant discrepancy in mortality among even geographically close regions could be explained by a cross protection ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
HKBU unveils COVID-19 transmission patterns

New research led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) computer scientists has used a data-driven modelling a...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Seasun Biomaterials set to launch COVID-19 rapid kit

South Korea based SEASUN BIOMATERIALS has announced that they are about to release their second COVID-19 assay "AQ-TOP C...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vela Diagnostics Receives BARDA Funding to Develop COVID-19 Tests

Vela Diagnostics has been awarded a $225,000 contract by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BAR...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vela Diagnostics receives CE mark for COVID-19 test

Singapore headquartered Vela Diagnostics announced that the manual version of the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops comprehensive medical strategy for COVID-19

The Multi-Ministry Taskforce in Singapore has a comprehensive medical strategy to ensure that individuals infected with ...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NanoPass joins pharma partners for COVID-19 vaccine development

Novel Coronavirus presents a global pandemic with unprecedented medical, economic and social scales. Since there is curr...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
COVID-19 : Testing coverage

Countries are reporting testing data in different ways: some report the number of tests, others report the number of peo...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia boosts COVID-19 response with additional $3M

The Australian Government will provide a further $3 million to support frontline health workers with training and inform...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
MiRXES to distribute A*STAR's SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test

MiRXES, a homegrown Singapore-based biotech, has received Provisional Authorisation from the Health Sciences Author...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Terumo donates $2.4 M for COVID-19 fight

As the world joins together to support healthcare workers and others on the front lines providing critical care to patie...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore designs AI platform to combat infectious diseases

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to develop, researchers around the world are attempting to find the most effective trea...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Scientists identify key nasal cells believed to attract Coronavirus

Two specific nose cell types have been identified as likely initial infection points for COVID-19 coronavirus. Scientist...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
CanSino Bio enrols for Ph 2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine

China’s CanSino Biologics advancing its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to a Phase II clinical trial making this vaccine c...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
MIT works towards reducing lung damage in COVID-19 patients

One of the defining features of Covid-19 is the excessive immune response that can occur in severe cases. This burst of ...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Senhwa Biosciences, NIH to co-develop COVID-19 drug

Taiwan headquartered Senhwa Biosciences Inc announced that it has partnered with the US National Institutes of Health (N...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan scales up efforts to combat pandemic

Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF), by integrating upstream, midstream, and downstream textile industries and with the help...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
DHL Global ships 1.3 M COVID-19 test kits from South Korea

DHL Global Forwarding South Korea has air freighted more than 1.3 million COVID-19 test kits in the first three weeks of...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
ITU, WHO collaborate with IT sector to defeat COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with support from UNICEF are set to...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
NEC designs blueprints for COVID-19 vaccines using AI

Japan based NEC Corporation has announced analysis results from efforts using AI prediction platforms to design blueprin...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
dnature secures funding to develop COVID-19 test

The Health Research Council in New Zealand has announced that dnature diagnostics & research company is the recipien...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops guide for COVID-19 remote consultation

Primary care health workers now have a guide for conducting remote consultation of suspected COVID-19 patients, develope...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Seegene receives FDA EUA for Allplex 2019-nCoV assay

South Korean firm Seegene, Inc. has announced that U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use Authori...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
KidneyIntelX to assess risk of adverse kidney events in COVID-19 patients

Following the announcement that Renalytix AI’s KidneyIntelX™ platform will be used to assess the risk o...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
3,000 Global Healthcare Workers Join Alibaba Online to explore COVID-19

Amid the global spread of COVID-19, it has become more important for medical personnel with firsthand experience treatin...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore explores immunotherapy for COVID-19 treatment

The engineering of specific virus-targeting receptors onto a patient’s own immune cells is now being explored by s...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Entrepreneurship flourishes amid pandemic in Singapore

Singapore based early-stage VC Antler has received over 1500 applications from 100 countries in barely two weeks since i...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thailand unveils new campaign in response to COVID-19 outbreak

Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau or TCEB has announced two projects focusing on digital-based Meetings, in...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News

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