Bosung Meditech develops safe blood drawing equipment

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 31 Jul, 2012

Singapore: At a time when the issue of secondary infection is emerging as a big problem in many countries, South Korean medical device manufacturer Bosung Meditech has developed a blood dra...Read more

Boston Scientific opens IAS, innovation center in Shanghai

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Reinforcing its ongoing commitment to leadership in the global medical technology market, Boston Scientific has officially opened the China branch of the Boston Scientific Instit...Read more

Neopec implant cures breast cancer

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Neopec has demonstrated proof-of-concept for breast tissue growth using its breast reconstruction chamber in a pilot human clinical trial. This trial followed promising preclinic...Read more

SMC Biotech uses sugar to repair bones

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Jul, 2013

Singapore: SMC Biotechnology, a regenerative medicine company focused on developing carbohydrate compounds that enhance tissue regeneration, recently published data in the online journal Bi...Read more

Qiagen expands its assay panels for NGS offerings

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Jun, 2013

Singapore: Qiagen N V announced plans to significantly expand its existing portfolio of molecular assays used in next-generation sequencing (NGS) during 2013 as part of its expansion into t...Read more

Shimadzu launches gas chromatograph mass spectrometer

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 May, 2012

Singapore: Shimadzu Corporation introduced the GCMS-TQ8030 ultra fast triple quadrupole gas chromatograph mass spectrometer, achieving the next step forward in Shimadzu's GC-MS history of i...Read more

Ellex raises funds to advance eye diagnostic tech

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Australia-based Ellex Medical Lasers, medical technology developers for the diagnosis and treatment of eye disease, has successfully completed a placement to institutional and so...Read more

Drug delivery technology a key for drug prescription: Frost and Sullivan

MedTech |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Jul, 2013

Singapore: A recent survey by Frost and Sullivan of more than 220 physicians and 650 patients in US on drug delivery technology highlights that physicians select drug delivery methods that ...Read more

Biomaterials market will be worth $88.4 bn by 2017

MedTech |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Mar, 2013

Singapore: A new report by MarketsAndMarkets titled 'Biomaterials market and applications - Global forecasts to 2017', estimates the global market for biomaterials to grow at a compound ann...Read more

Medtronic to acquire China Kanghui for $816 mn in cash

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 28 Sep, 2012

Singapore: Medtronic and China Kanghui Holdings have entered into a merger agreement whereby Medtronic will acquire Kanghui by paying close to $816 million in cash ($30.75 per American depo...Read more

Start-up emerges from Stanford-India Biodesign program

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Aug, 2012

New Delhi: Indian Angel Network and India Innovation Fund has announced an undisclosed investment in Consure Medical, a New Delhi-based company, which has developed a new standard-of-care f...Read more

Start-ups sign agreement for A*STAR technology

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Five start-ups, including three from the bioscience sector, have signed licensing agreements with Exploit Technologies, the commercial arm of the Agency for Science, Research and...Read more

BioMatrix Technology gets wider reach

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Singapore's Biosensors International and Terumo Corporation have extended their existing licensing agreements, under which Terumo may continue to incorporate BioMatrix technology...Read more

AB Sciex launches data analysis software

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Aug, 2013

Singapore: AB Sciex, a global leader in analytical technologies, has launched MasterView Software, a new software application with built-in automation that turns enormous amounts of complex...Read more

Kite Patch makes you invisible to mosquitoes

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Aug, 2013

Singapore: California-based start-up Olfactor Laboratories has developed a sticker, Kite Mosquito Patch, that the company claims can make wearers virtually invisible to mosquitoes for up to...Read more

LCT conducts first implant of regenerative therapy

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Australia-based Living Cell Technologies (LCT) has implanted regenerative cell therapy NTCELL, a treatment for Parkinson's disease in the first patient in phase I clinical trial....Read more

Singapore health IT CEO wins ASEAN CIO Award

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Sep, 2013

Singapore: CEO of Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), Dr Chong Yoke Sin, has received the Asean CIO Award in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Singapore's Health Ministry's IT arm, IHiS d...Read more

SHL to invest $40 mn in Taiwan drug delivery industry

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Oct, 2013

Singapore: Taiwan based SHL Group, a designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery devices, has plans to invest USD40 million in Taiwan and has signed a second Letter of In...Read more