Asia-Pacific Biotech News

AUSTRALIA – Laser Method to Restore Sight an Aussie Miracle.

AUSTRALIA – Brain Estrogen Shows Promise as Schizophrenia Treatment.

AUSTRALIA – New Blood Test for Newborns to Detect Allergy Risk.

AUSTRALIA – UQ Wins $6.5 Million for Groundbreaking Research Projects.

CHINA – China: New HIV Model Suggests Killer T Cell for Vaccine.

CHINA – 17 Babies Injected with Expired Medicine.

CHINA – Substandard Human Rabies Vaccine Recalled.

CHINA – China Faces New Health Scare Over 'Bad Vaccines'.

INDIA – Artificial Blood Vessels Developed from Jatropha.

INDIA – India and Germany to Initiate Joint Research in Oncology, Regenerative Medicine, Neurosciences.

INDIA – Indian Scientists Decode TB Bacteria Genome.

INDIA – Nearly Half a Million Foreigners Throng India for Cheap Treatment.

INDIA – Transgenic Chicken for Therapeutic Use Developed.

JAPAN – Japan's Miyazaki Beef Threatened by Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak.

SINGAPORE – Number of Flu Cases Near Epidemic Levels.

SINGAPORE – $140m Expansion to Increase R&D Space at The Biopolis.

SINGAPORE – Singapore Scientists' Zebrafish Model for Parkinson's Disease an Important Step Closer to Drug Development for the Disease.

SINGAPORE – Painless, Cheaper Way to Diagnose Bladder Cancer.

SINGAPORE – Fujitsu Establishes its First Biomedical Research Laboratory in Singapore.

SINGAPORE – A*Star, MRC Grant $4.5m for Six Research Projects.

SINGAPORE – Singapore Scientists Exploit p53 to Improve Cancer Treatment.

TAIWAN – Taiwan Scientists Identify Keys to Bipolar Disorder.

NORTH AMERICA – First Prostrate Cancer Vaccine a Major Breakthrough.

Biodiversity Conservation is Everyone's Business.

Search for ASEAN Champions of Biodiversity is On.

Drug Companies Reduce Prices of Medicines.

SWS: Make Health A Priority, Filipinos Ask Next Leaders.

New Vein Harvesting Technology.

Mobile Health Records in Malaysia.

Faster, Accurately Targeted Radiation Cancer Patients.

SingHealth Selects IBM and SAP To Transform HR Processes.

Mesoblast to Acquire Angioblast Systems.

Ansell Unveils First Antimicrobial Surgical Glove.

OriGene to Build World's Largest MAb Facility in China.

Zydus Cadila to Launch India's First H1N1 Vaccine.

Abbott Acquires India's Piramal Health for $3.72 bn.

Mantrax Ventures and TCG Lifesciences Collaborate.

Protox Therapeutics, Kissei Pharmaceutical in Prostate Cancer Deal.

First Transcatheter Valve Clinical Trial in Japan Treats Patients with Edwards SAPIEN XT Valve.

South Korean Firm Develops Drug to Kill Leukemia Stem Cells.

GSK Extends Presence in Asia with New Strategic Alliance in South Korea.

World's Most Comprehensive Nanoparticle System Unveiled.

*BIO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals Expand Development, Commercialization Collaboration for JAK2 Inhibitors.

SIRO Clinpharm Forms Alliance with Taiwan's VCRO.

Discovery of Crucial Protein Interaction Sheds Light on Mental Retardation.

Scientists Find Genes Associated with Throat Cancer.

UQ Researcher Receives $1000,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant.

UQ Scientist Receives AAS Honor.

Imperial College London Bestows its Highest Honor on A*STAR Chairman Lim Chuan Poh.