Narrow Results

AUSTRALIA – PAST Protocol to Fast-track Stroke Treatment

AUSTRALIA – Great Potential of Regenerative Heart Tissue in Embryonic Mice

CHINA – Babies Killed by Tainted Milk Formula Increased to Six

CHINA – Chinese Society of Hematology and Bayer Partner to Develop Comprehensive Care Hemophilia Treatment Centers throughout China

CHINA – Drug Information Association (DIA) Opens New Office in China

CHINA – China Leads Way to Develop Bird Flu Pandemic Forewarning System

CHINA – Herbal Drug Recalled after Infant's Death

CHINA – Toddler Virus Flares Up in China Again

CHINA – Functional Gene Discovered for Rice's Grain-Filling

CHINA – China Tops the Health List among Developing Countries

CHINA – U.S. Food, Drug Regulator to Set Up Offices in China

INDIA – Maharashtra Plans Two More Biotech Parks at Khalapur, Alibag

INDIA – Institute of Clinical Research India Partners with SingHealth

INDONESIA – 113th Bird Flu Death Recorded in Indonesia

JAPAN – World's First Made-to-order Bones on Clinical Trial

JAPAN – Dioxin Tied to Metabolic Syndrome in Japan

MALAYSIA – Medicine Study at Newcastle University in Malaysia

NEW ZEALAND – NZ Research Implants Pig Cells in Human Diabetics

SINGAPORE – Singapore Develops Cell Therapy Treatment for Cancer

SINGAPORE – Singapore Sets Up Second Heart Center to Meet Demand

SINGAPORE – Singapore is First in Southeast Asia to Offer Robotic Surgery for Gynaecologic Cancers

SINGAPORE – SNEC Takes the Lead at the Forefront of Lasik and Corneal Transplant Technology

SINGAPORE – Singapore Pumps Funding to Boost Dengue, Diabetes Research

SINGAPORE – Second Case of Rare Genetic Disorder that Afflict Toddlers Detected

SINGAPORE – Singapore Landfill Gets New Lease of Life as an Eco Park

SINGAPORE – Fusionopolis – World Within a City – Singapore's 2nd R&D Hub

SINGAPORE – Singapore's Stem Cell Research Signifies A Global Breakthrough

THAILAND – Thai Scientists' First Genetic Decode Advances Thailand into “Genomic” Era

THAILAND – Bird Flu Found in Northern Thailand, First Outbreak in 10 months

TAIWAN – A New Food Regulatory Agency to be Set Up in Taiwan

VIETNAM – Vietnam to Host Global Rice Meet in 2010

VIETNAM – Liver Transplant on Vietnam's Youngest Receiver Successful

VIETNAM – Ministries Unite For Greater Synergy to Develop Pharmaceutical Industry

VIETNAM – Vietnam Launches Diabetes Awareness Project

Fonterra's Absolute Priorities – Food Quality and Consumer Safety

Contaminated Food from China: Perils of Industrialized Agriculture

Agricultural Biotechnology and Food Security.

Innovating for the Future – A Focus on the Dutch Life Sciences and Health Sector.

LatAM Biotechnology – An Outsider Looking In & an Insider Looking Out Perspective.

INDIA — Asianhhm.com introduces innovative print and digital advertising solutions.

INDONESIA — IMCD acquires leading Indonesian food ingredients distributor Alam Subur.

JAPAN — VITAL Corporation to distribute Imagine Eyes' rtx1™ Adaptive Optics Retinal Camera in Japan.

SINGAPORE — Global threat of multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis.

SINGAPORE — APAC breeding ground for Anti-bacterial household product innovation.

AUSTRALIA — In defence of the humble ant, champion of biodiversity.

AUSTRALIA — Senz Oncology initiates VAL-1000 clinical trial in patients with acute leukemias.

AUSTRALIA — ABRAXANE^® demonstrates significant improvement in advanced melanoma patients.

AUSTRALIA — Alzheimer's, cancer and rare disease research to benefit from landmark MRC-AstraZeneca compound collaboration.

AUSTRALIA — Nine Sydney researchers to receive funding for biomedical research projects.

AMERICAS — How blind mole rats keep cancer at bay.

AMERICAS — No assembly required for new micro particles.

AMERICAS — Caribbean sardine collapse linked to climate change.

EUROPE — Radioembolization using sir-spheres significantly improves overall survival for patients with inoperable colorectal cancer.

ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Opportunities for Trade and Investment in Thailand's Biotechnology Sector.

Advancing Thailand's Rice Agriculture through Molecular Breeding.

Boosting Thailand's Food and Feed Industry: The Food and Feed Innovation Center.

Building Manpower Capacity and Capabilities for Thailand and ASEAN.

Pursuing Immunopathophysiology Research to Support Typhus Vaccine Developement.

INDIA – Ozone eating away Indian crop yields.

INDIA – Polio shots better than oral drops, says study.

JAPAN – Natural protein in rice helps keep arsenic out in grains.

THE PHILIPPINES – Philippines adopts inactivated polio vaccine strategy.

SINGAPORE – A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics and Singapore Biomicro to develop a first-of-its-kind, implantable wireless blood glucose monitoring sensor device.

THAILAND – Ebola-affected countries face new threat: food crisis.

THAILAND – Fending off dengue with insecticide-treated uniforms.

AFRICA – New test to combat major cause of preventable blindness in Africa.

BANGLADESH – Arsenic linked to lung cancer in Bangladesh.

EUROPE – Human-milk-oligosaccharides can protect against noroviruses.

UNITED STATES – Researchers discover possible cause of common dementia.

UNITED STATES – Improved mouse model may accelerate research on potential Ebola vaccines and treatments.

UNITED STATES – New device yields close-up look at metastasis.

UNITED STATES – Scientists research ways to use an organism's own pathway to synthesize potential therapeutics.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS – Quality issues in herbal medicine clinical trials.

Intertwining Agriculture and Nutrition.

Looking into Nutrition.

Food as Medicine.

Agriculture's Challenge: To Make Insects the New Protein.

SINGAPORE – New Material Kills E. Coli Bacteria in 30 Seconds.

SINGAPORE – Real-Time Imaging of Embryo Development Could Pave the Way for More Effective Human Reproduction Therapies.

UNITED STATES – Innovative Device Allows 3D Imaging of the Breast with Less Radiation.

UNITED STATES – BIOTRONIK Launches Smallest MR Conditional Pacing Lead Available in the United States.

UNITED STATES – Computer App Whets Children's Appetites for Eco-Friendly Meals.

AUSTRALIA & CHINA – Uscom Agreement with CIIC Shanghai.

JAPAN – Chugai Announces License Agreement for Recycling Antibody SA237.

KOREA – ORIG3N(TM) and Kangstem Biotech Announce Collaboration to Study Neural Stem Cells.

SINGAPORE – A New Way of Looking at Cancer

SINGAPORE – Novel Discovery by NUS Scientists Improves Profiling of AML Patients for Targeted Therapies

SINGAPORE – Red Meat Consumption Linked with Increased Risk of Developing Kidney Failure

SINGAPORE – Thomson Medical and UK-based Cell Therapy Limited Collaborate on Stem Cell Research to Develop Regenerative Medicines

UNITED STATES – New Biomaterial Developed for Injectable Neuronal Control

UNITED STATES – Research Shines Light on Lesser Known Form of Vitamin D in Foods

UNITED STATES – MRIGlobal to Lead International Research Collaboration for Tularemia Vaccine

INDIA – Improving Agricultural Yield and Quality through Tissue Culture Technology

TAIWAN – A Cascade of Protein Aggregation Bombards Mitochondria for Neurodegeneration and Apoptosis under WWOX Deficiency

SINGAPORE – Singapore eHealth Innovations Summit Announces the First EMRAM Stage 7 Hospital in Singapore and Emphasized Technology as Transformative Agent in Specialty Functions.

TAIWAN – Health2Sync Strategically Partners with Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare in Asia's First Government Supported Online Diabetes Care Program.

UNITED STATES – Scientists Identify Protein Involved in Restoring Effectiveness of Common Treatment for Breast Cancer.

UNITED STATES – Scientists Reveal How Signals from Pathogenic Bacteria Reach Danger Sensors of Cells.

UNITED STATES – Scientists Find New Path in Brain to Ease Depression.

UNITED STATES – Tips for Living a Heart Healthy Lifestyle.

CANADA – Review Suggests Eating Oats Can Lower Cholesterol as Measured by a Variety of Markers.

SOUTH KOREA – CSA Group Opens Highly Advanced Electro - Medical Laboratory in Seoul.

AUSTRALIA – Cynata’s Technology Significant Efficacy in Preclinical Asthma Study.

INDIA – Essilor Launches ‘Love to See Change’ Campaign to Educate People about Need to Preserve Visual Health.

UNITED STATES – Smoking While Pregnant May Compromise Children’s Kidney Function.

UNITED STATES – You Are What You Exhale.

UNITED STATES – A Diet of Fruits, Vegetables May Help Kidney Disease Patients.

TAIWAN – TLC to Proceed with TLC599 Phase 2 Trial in Taiwan.

TAIWAN – TLC Reports Results of Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of TLC599 for Sustained Pain Relief in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee.

JAPAN – Chugai to Join Global Initiative for Addressing Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries.

AUSTRALIA & MALAYSIA – Holista CollTech Collaborates with Nobel Prize Nominee to File Patent for World’s First Low-GI Sugar with All-Natural Ingredients.

Future Foods for Health: Innovations in Dietary Modifications for Diabetes.

Kosmode Health: Technology that Expands Access to Health from Nature.

Halal Certified Food: Processing, Technology and Regulations.

Empowering nutrition via biotechnology

Feeding Asia’s children

Climate models predict more weather extremes in the coming decades. Weather shocks can directly reduce crop production, but their effect on food markets is partly buffered by storage and supply responses that can be complex and nuanced. We explore how inter-hemispheric trade and supply responses can moderate the effects of weather shocks on global food supply by enabling potential intra-annual arbitrage. Our estimates of this effect in the case of wheat and soybeans suggest that it may be considerable: 25–50% of crop production lost to a shock in the Southern Hemisphere is offset six months later by increased production in the North. These results have implications for the potential effects of climate change on global food markets, for how we model these interactions and, possibly, for the design of trade and production-related policies that aim to leverage this inter-hemispheric buffer more effectively.

This work is a contribution to the improvement of the thermal and the dynamic fields of a natural convection indirect solar dryer, composed of a solar flat air heater and a drying chamber, intended for drying agricultural products and medicinal plants. We have studied the effects of size and position of the outlet on the distribution of air and temperature within the drying chamber, containing the figs as a product to be dried. To be more realistic, we have used a user defined function (UDF) subroutine written in $C++$ to integrate the unsteady evolution of a day’s climate data in the Oujda region.

This study was achieved by numerical simulations using the ANSYS FLUENT software, in order to optimize the distribution of air and temperature inside the drying chamber, and to choose the best outlet’s position and size for the best efficiency of the dryer.

The results show that the optimal outlet position found is in the right corner with a size range of 0.07 to 0.15m. The effects of the position and size of the outlet on the air deflection along the trays were also presented and discussed.

While microalgae oil was perceived as the preferred feedstock to supply the inelastic global demand for biofuel, industry and academia attempts to create viable microalgae-oil production processes has not reach the desired goal yet. UniVerve Ltd. has developed an innovative technological process that provides a scalable, cost effective and sustainable solution for the production of microalgae-biomass. The oil, which can be extracted with off-the-shelf wet-extraction technologies and used as an excellent feedstock for all kinds of biofuel, is expected to be produced at up to US$50 per barrel. As the biomass also contains omega-3, proteins and other valuable biomaterials that can be commercialized in the food and feed markets, a microalgae farm can serve the biofuel, food and feed industries, which currently face an increasing lack of quality feedstock at an affordable price.

The study aims to scientifically substantiate the application of the scenario approach in predicting the development of the agri-food sector in rural areas. The conceptual novelty of the study is that it develops a scenario forecasting algorithm for the development of the agri-food sector of rural areas in the digital economy. It also clarifies methodological approaches and recommendations for forecasting production volumes of certain agri-food products at the zonal level. The paper shows that digitalization is one of the critical factors that directly ensure an increase in agribusiness efficiency in the current conditions in agriculture. An assessment of the impact of digital transformation processes on the activities of agricultural producers is given, and the advantages of using modern digital technologies in the agricultural sector are highlighted. Furthermore, the results of scenario forecasting of production volumes of agri-food products by farms of all categories are presented in the example of the non-black soil zone of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The study’s preliminary results are as follows: the world experience in scientific research on the use of digital technologies in the activities of agricultural producers was generalized.

Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth. However, food is currently threatening both people and the planet. An immense challenge facing humanity is to provide a growing world population with healthy diets from sustainable food systems. While global food production of calories has generally kept pace with population growth, more than 820 million people still lack sufficient food, and many more consume either low-quality diets or too much food. Unhealthy diets now pose a greater risk to morbidity and mortality than unsafe sex, alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined. Global food production threatens climate stability and ecosystem resilience and constitutes the single largest driver of environmental degradation and transgression of planetary boundaries Willett et al. (2019). Taken together, the outcome is dire. A radical transformation of the global food system is urgently needed. Without action, the world risks failing to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, and today’s children will inherit a planet that has been severely degraded and where much of the population will increasingly suffer from malnutrition and preventable disease…

Sustainable development goals (SDGs) acknowledge the interlinkages between human well-being, economic prosperity, and a healthy environment, and hence, are associated with a wide range of topical issues that include the securities of water, energy, and food (WEF) resources, poverty eradication, economic development, climate change, health, among others. As SDGs are assessed through targets to be achieved by 2030 and monitored through measurable indicators, nexus planning was applied as a transformative approach to monitor and assess progress toward SDG in 2015 and 2018 using South Africa. WEF nexus-related SDGs that were evaluated include Goals 2 (zero hunger), 6 (clean water and sanitation), and 7 (affordable and clean energy). The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to integrate indicators for each of the reference years. Resource management and implementation of WEF-related SDGs improved by 31% (from 0.155 to 0.203) between 2015 and 2018 in South Africa but remained marginally sustainable. The assessment provided an evidence-based support framework for improved and effective management strategies to meet set SDG targets. The connections between the WEF nexus and SDGs strengthen cross-sectoral collaboration among stakeholders, unpack measures for cooperative governance and management, and supporting outcomes that arise from different cross-sectoral interventions. As food production, water provision, and energy accessibility are the major socio-economic and environmental issues currently attracting global attention, the method enhances climate change adaptation.

Arguably, to nourish or take care of the needs of all of humankind — sustainable and affordable access to clean water, safe sanitation, and clean air, together with a sufficiency of energy, food, and shelter — should be universally available. Yet, many humans do not enjoy such access or availability, even though it has been 70 years since the 1948 United Nations (UN) declaration on human rights proclaimed “that all human beings are equal, and have inherent rights.” However, only food and shelter were explicitly mentioned in the initial declaration. Others were recently added to the UN list, but not air and energy. Nevertheless, basic human needs do not have to be declared as a human right before national actions are taken. Today’s key driver is the UN 2030 Agenda, a plan to eradicate all global poverty and set the world onto a “sustainable and resilient path,” through the achievement of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adopted by all UN members, the 2030 Agenda in essence, is a 21^st century version of the 1948 proclamation. The SDGs explicitly detail, or implicitly in the case of clean air, all the necessary needs for the nourishing of tomorrow. To achieve the plan will likely require, at least, changes in national cultural values, eliminating inequalities and disparities, developing more appropriate governance strategies, and meaningful technical innovation. In this chapter, these requirements are discussed against a backdrop of presently known deficiencies in global nourishment needs.