Asia-Pacific Biotech News

AUSTRALIA – New Therapy could Restore Mobility in Stroke Victims.

AUSTRALIA – Sugar as Bad as Fat.

AUSTRALIA – Scientists Uncover Cancer-fighting "Death" Protein.

AUSTRALIA – Shrinking Brain in Dementia Prompts Overeating.

AUSTRALIA – New Monitoring System for Mosquito-Borne Disease.

AUSTRALIA – Australian Researcher Finds Radical Technique to Save MAS Babies.

AUSTRALIA – Austrian Scientists Discover Enzyme Function in Cancer.

CHINA – Domestic Dengue Fever Cases Breaks 1,000.

CHINA – China Experts Design Gel to Protect Women from HIV.

INDIA – India, South Africa to Team up on HIV Vaccine Research.

MALAYSIA – Malaysia to use Lab Mosquitoes to Fight Dengue

NEW ZEALAND – Plant Derived Foods can Keep us Feeling Full.

SINGAPORE – Singapore Hosts First "Decade of the Mind" Conference in Asia and Expands Efforts in Brain & Cognition Research.

SINGAPORE – Drugs May Replace Chemo in Leukemia Therapy.

SINGAPORE – Singapore Scientists First to Perform Genome-Wide study of Human Stem Cells.

SINGAPORE – Singapore Babies in Waste-disease Trial.

SINGAPORE – New Technology a Shot in the Arm for Biofuels.

SINGAPORE – S$3.7 Billion for Singapore Biomedical Sciences R&D.

TAIWAN – Medical Tourism Booms in Taiwan.

OTHER REGIONS — EUROPE – Gene that Triggers Human Cancer Identified.

OTHER REGIONS — EUROPE – Painfully Potent Pepper.

OTHER REGIONS — NORTH AMERICA – 2 Dads and No Mum make 10 Mice.

Neem: A Wonder Tree.

Bacteria Living on Arsenic Discovered.

Temsirolimus Approved in Singapore for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Attune™ Acoustic Focusing Cytometer.

Securing Genetic Diversity of Rice in 'Doomsday Vault'.

Leica Opens New Dimension in Spectral Imaging.

Phylogica Commences Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery under Agreement with MedImmune.

Leadtec Systems Australia to Acquire Mimotopes.

Sirnaomics Seals Deal for Development of RNAi Therapeutics in China.

Simcere and Bristol-Myers Squibb Enter Innovative Partnership to Develop Early-Stage Oncology Compound.

Pfizer, Biocon in $350 Million Insulin Pact.

Bharat Biotech Announces Launch of 'HNVAC™' India's First Cell-Culture H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine.

Cipla Launches the World's First Generic Pirfenidone in India, Giving Hope to Sufferers of IPF (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis).

Eisai and FORMA Therapeutics Enter into Broad Drug Discovery Collaboration.

Philips and Atom Medical Corporation Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide a Complete Neonatal and Perinatal Offering.

CiRA and France-based Cellectis Enter Collaboration.

Immunovaccine Signs Research Agreement with OncoTherapy Science to Advance Potential Cancer Vaccine.

Glycos Biotechnologies Enters Definitive Agreement with Malaysian Bio-XCell.

Biocon Plans to Invest $161m in Malaysia to Set Up R&D Unit.

A*STAR IME Heralds Personalized Therapy for Cancer Patients.

Singapore Scientist Leads Team to Discover Origin of Brain Immune Cells.

New Honor for Eminent Cardiac Surgeon Cherian.

Austin Researcher a Dual Award Winner.

Medals Awarded to Top New Zealand Researchers.