Asia-Pacific Biotech News

AUSTRALIA — South Australian Government Invests in Center for Plant Functional Genomics.

AUSTRALIA — New Cancer Research Facility to be Built at UNSW.

AUSTRALIA — Fighting Bird Flu with RNAi.

CHINA — China's Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Collaborates with Syngenta.

CHINA — China to Establish Anti-bioterrorism System.

CHINA — China Halts Production of Novartis Drug — Zelnorm.

INDIA — Central Drug Authority Bill to Come Up During Monsoon Session.

INDIA — India to Import Doses of Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine from China.

INDIA — Chikungunya Mosquito-borne Virus Threatens Thousands.

INDONESIA — Indonesia Bird Flu Cases Top 100.

JAPAN — Japanese Researchers Develop Plant-Based Cholera Vaccine.

JAPAN — Chugai and Roche to Review Tamiflu Safety Issues.

MALAYSIA — Malaysia and Italy to Work Together in Agriculture.

SINGAPORE — Bilcare, ACRP Jointly Float New Academy Center at Singapore.

SINGAPORE — Singapore Hit by Dengue Epidemic.

SOUTH KOREA — Government to Tighten Regulations on GM Organisms in 2008.

TAIWAN — National Chiao Tung University to Establish Intelligent Prosthetics Research Center.

VIETNAM — Vietnam Recalls Tainted Soy Sauce.

OTHER — Novartis Gains European Approval for Innovative Flu Vaccine.

OTHER — S$2.15 Billion Spent to Contain Drug-resistant TB.

OTHER — Bird Flu Spreads to Northern Bangladesh.

OTHER — Red Cross Denounces Burmese Junta for Rights Abuses.

Bringing the Vision of Two Men to Greater Heights.

On a mission to stop bird flu.

Continuing a Father's Legacy.

Where Blood is its Business.

Recruiting Biotech CEOs in the Asia Pacific Region.

Benitec Starts First HIV Clinical Drug Trials in USA.

Biotech Capital to Invest $2 Million in Hearing Technology Company Sensea.

Deakin University Signs Agreement with Biocon.

Opening Up Drug Development Opportunities in Asia.

National Enzyme Company Expands Chinese Distribution.

Indoco Remedies Geared Up for Brazil.

Japan's Bioventures Today — Link Genomics, Inc.

Singapore's ES Cell Offers Stem Cell Technology to Japanese Company.

CordLife Completes Technology Restructuring.

SciGen Hep B Vaccine Lauded in US Journal.

Rockeby Revises Hangover Cure.

Yokogawa Reinforces Global Presence in Singapore.

IBM Contributes Software that Predicts Spread of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Asia Pacific Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutics: A Rock & Roll Run and Race?

Duke-NUS Graduate School Appoints Cancer Research Chief.

Peptech Chairman Mel Bridges Retires.

Professor OP Katare Receives Technology Award 2007.