Asia-Pacific Biotech News

Australia — Politicians Chastise Australia's Science Institute.

Australia — GE Healthcare and WA Government Collaborate on Cell-based Imaging Equipment.

Australia — The Goal of Imugene's H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Vaccine.

China — East China University Sparks Debate on Education Funding.

China — 3D Map of SARS virus Drawn.

China — Researchers Comment that Global Loss of Biodiversity is Harming Ocean Bounty.

China — China Insists that there are No Variant Bird Flu Strain.

China — Gene involved in Eye Lens Development.

China — Cancer-causing Dye Found in Duck Eggs in China.

Hong Kong — Scientists in Hong Kong Found Clues to Pandemic Bird Flu.

Hong Kong — Hong Kong Bird Flu Expert Picked to Head WHO.

India — Ranbaxy Signs Licensing Agreement with Swiss Company Debiopharm.

India — Indian Biotechnology Park.

Japan — Japan's New Premier Chases Innovation.

Japan — Japan Reforms Screening to Speed up Drug Approval.

New Zealand — New Zealand Invests in Neurology Project.

South Korea — South Korea Gives Funding Boost to Stem-Cell Research.

South Korea — South Korea Plans to Inject $253 million into Biotech.

South Korea — Scientists Discover Stem Cells Might Help to Treat Mental Illness.

Singapore — Renowned French Cancer Development Biologist Moves to Singapore's Biopolis.

Singapore — Singapore Plans to Build Bigger Heart Center to Handle Spiraling Patient Numbers.

Singapore — New Centre for Biomedical Ethics at NUS.

Taiwan — Taiwan's CDC Places Order for H5N1 Vaccine.

Taiwan — Tenders sought for Pingtung Agricultural Biotech Park Housing.

Australian Listed biotech firms to Benefit from New Alliance.

CyGenics Signs Collaboration Agreement with the Blood Center of Zhejiang Province.

Shanghai Genomics.

CMIC and Accium Collaborate to Provide Exploratory-IND and Low-Radiation PK/ADME Service.

Stelic Discovers New Treatment Method for Acute Liver Failure.

Japan Bioventures Today — Regimmune Corporation.

Inventory Response by Baxter on its Preliminary Findings for Bird Flu Vaccine.

Davos Life Science Opens World's Largest R&D Center on Tocotrienols in Singapore.

Invitrogen Opens First of its Kind Supply Center in Singapore.

Progress of Crop Functional Genomics Program in Korea.

S*Bio Develops Singapore's First Clinical Anti-Cancer Drug Candidate.

Scientists make Diagnoses Easier Through New Molecular Probe.

Nobel Prize Winner Hopes China to Contribute More to Biotech.

India Fears about Faulty HIV Test Kits that will Spread Disease.

Injectable Hyaluronic Acid–Tyramine Hydrogels Formed by Enzyme for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering.

A*STAR And UK Medical Research Council Partnership Opens Up New Research Opportunities For A*STAR Scholars.

Biopolis Phase II Opens with Strong Interest and Co-operation from Research Institutions and Biomedical Companies.

Professor Roger D. Komberg — 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.