Asia-Pacific Biotech News

AUSTRALIA – Degenerative Disease Breakthrough.

AUSTRALIA – New Genetic Cancer Risk Found.

AUSTRALIA – Experts Find Way to Make Mosquitoes Dengue-free.

CHINA – Virus May Cause High Blood Pressure.

CHINA – Eleven Die from Suspected Tainted Vinegar in China.

HONG KONG – HK Study Finds Molecule that Offers Fertility Hope.

INDIA – Hyderabad Hospital Performs Rare Kidney Transplant.

INDIA – 20-minute Treatment for Blood Pressure.

INDIA – New Experimental Vaccine against Chikungunya.

JAPAN – ES Cells Turn Into Sperm.

JAPAN – Leading Japanese Pharmaceutical Scientists Advance Drug Discovery & Development with Mass Spectrometry and Chip LC Technology from AB SCIEX.

SINGAPORE – One Hundred and Twenty Aspiring Scientists Awarded Scholarships.

SINGAPORE – Pacific Healthcare Launches Pacific Surgical and Colorectal Centre in Singapore.

SINGAPORE – NTU Achieves Bacterium Breakthrough.

OTHER REGIONS — Killer T-cells Wipe Out Leukemia.

Natural Products in the Drug Discovery Programmes in Alzheimer's: Impacts and Prospects.

Advancement of chitosan based nanoparticles for present and future interests.

Algal Tranformations for Enhanced Metabolite Production and Pathway Manipulation.

CTA Forms Collaboration with Indian CRO Clininvent.

NANOTEC, Flinders University Initiate Research Collaboration.

University of Western Australia and Agilent Technologies to Create World's First Plant Protein Monitoring Database.

Abbott Expanding Manufacturing Capacity in China.

Infinity Group's Tianyi Medical Fund Participates in 250 Million RMB Investment in Asymchem Laboratories (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.

Eli Lilly India and Lupin Announce Strategic Collaboration to Help Fight the Battle Against Diabetes.

IndianOil & Dept. of Biotechnology Set Up Advanced Bioenergy Research Center.

Ipca Labs acquires UK-based Onyx Research Chemicals.

Trivitron Healthcare Partners with Hitachi Medical Systems.

Rice Research Receives $10 Million Grant.

New Method to Increase Antibiotic Yields.

Extra Genes May Make You Extremely Thin.

Biofuel Potential in Panda Poop.

Social Engagement Changes Fat Type.

Bacteria Clean Up Uranium, Produce Electricity.

Probiotics Promote Brain Health.

Soil Bacteria Targets Cancer.

More Muscle for In Vitro Meat.

New Carbon-Fixation Pathway Unveiled in Ocean Depths.