Asia-Pacific Biotech News

AUSTRALIA – Second-Generation Diagnostic Achieves 98% Accuracy in Detecting Early Stage Ovarian Cancers

AUSTRALIA – New Center Brings Australian and Chinese Researchers Together to Fight Infectious Diseases

AUSTRALIA – Co-developing New Treatment Guidelines for Melanoma

AUSTRALIA – Australia Leads World's First Global Effort to Improve Genetic Disorders Diagnosis

CHINA – China Bans Illegal Food Additives to Reinforce Food Safety Control

CHINA – China Steps Up Tighter Inspection in Food Safety

CHINA – WHO and China to Do More for Chinese with Hearing Impairment

CHINA – First TCM Drug for Arrhythmia

CHINA – First Human-Human Transmission of Tick-Borne Disease Reported in China

CHINA – Bird Flu Found in Chickens in Eastern China

CHINA – First Bird Flu Death Reported for 2009, No Bird-flu Outbreak

HONG KONG – Hong Kong Alerts New Bird Flu Outbreak

INDIA – India Also Confirmed Bird Flu Incidence

INDIA – India Plans 20 More Biotech Parks for Life Sciences Research

KOREA – An Economic Share in Medical Tourism Market

JAPAN – Brain Tissues Made from Stem Cells

NEW ZEALAND – Newly Merged Research Institute Leverage Greater Synergy

NEW ZEALAND – Kiwi's Green Plastic Well-Acclaimed in International Awards

NEW ZEALAND – Sea Sponge Indigenous to NZ Could Reduce Chemo Side Effects

PHILIPPINES – Ebola-Reston Virus Jumped Species

SINGAPORE – Human Sewage, the Potential Source of Clean Energy

SINGAPORE – No More Heart-stopping Incidents for Heart Patients

SINGAPORE – China Milk Products Get All-Clear from Singapore

SINGAPORE – Discovery of New Properties in Imidazolium Salts Yield Multi Applications

SINGAPORE – S'pore Ranked World's Most Prolific for Eye Research Per Capita

SINGAPORE – Outdoor Sun Reduces Incidence of Myopia in Children

TAIWAN – University Hospital in Taiwan Collaborates with Neuralstem

VIETNAM – Return of Bird Flu, Vietnam Runs High Risk of Human Infection

VIETNAM – Conjoined Twins Successfully Separated

VIETNAM – Rise in Off-Season Dengue Fever Cases

NORTH AMERICA – Epilepsy Drugs Prescription to Carry Suicide Risk Warning

NORTH AMERICA – U.S. Doctors Succeeded Near-total Face Transplant

NORTH AMERICA – Vaccinating Pacific Girls against Cervical Cancer

NORTH AMERICA – Manipulating Love and Emotions by Spray

EUROPE – Cambridge Pips Oxford in Research

EUROPE – Adapting Car Manufacturing Technology to Produce Synthetic Bone Implants

EUROPE – Dioxin-tainted Irish Pork Products Recalled

Fonterra's Absolute Priorities – Food Quality and Consumer Safety

Contaminated Food from China: Perils of Industrialized Agriculture

Progen and Avexa Agree to Merge for Research Synergies

Merial to Develop Vaccine Candidates Using Imugene's Vector Technology

Mesoblast Named as Emerging Company to Look Out For at 2009 Frost & Sullivan Award

Joint Laboratory by ProGenTech and China CDC

BIG Taps Life Technologies' SOLiD System to Advance Research in China

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Program to Meet Melamine Detection Challenges

The Sym006 Discovery Collaboration of Symphogen and Meiji Advanced to Preclinical Development

Astellas Enters License Agreement to Use Millipore's Technology

S*BIO and Tan Tock Seng Hospital to Assess New Therapeutic

Preclinical Translational Imaging Center Opened in Singapore

KKH Implements Rapid HIV Testing for Unbooked Pregnancies

Singapore's Parkway Chosen to Manage Abu Dhabi Hospital

Korean and American Research Institutes Combine Approaches in Analysis of Viral Infectivity

Powerful TOF Technology for Food Sample and Toxin Testing

SINGAPORE – Executive Chairman of Exploit Technologies, Appointed as Chairman of D-SIMLAB

SINGAPORE – SembCorp Environment's President and CEO Heng Chiang Gnee steps down

SINGAPORE – Anti-TB Campaigner, Former Medical Director of Tan Tock Seng Passed Away

SINGAPORE – Singapore's First Professor of Paediatrics Passed Away

NORTH AMERICA – Obama Taps Nobel Physicist for Energy Secretary

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