BSA-CMR Survey: New CRO players emerge in APAC

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Quintiles signs bioanalytical deal with Korean CRO

Singapore: To enhance its bioanalytical service offerings in Asia, Quintiles has signed an exclusive partnership with Bi...

December 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
Seegene licenses technologies to DuPont

Singapore: Korean company Seegene, a leading developer of multiplex molecular technologies and multiplex molecular diag...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
IBS Director wins Korea Science Award

Singapore: Professor Yeom Han Woong of the IBS Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems has received the...

January 6, 2016 | Wednesday | News
International consortium sequences tomato genome

Singapore: The Tomato Genome Consortium (TGC), which is a group of over 300 scientists from 13 countries sequenced the g...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Korea to spend $8.9 bn to develop 20 drugs by 2017

Singapore: South Korea will channelize a combined $8.9 billion (10 trillion Won) on developing 20 new drugs over the nex...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
CEVEC signs deal with Yuhan in South Korea

Singapore: CEVEC Pharmaceuticals, the developer of a novel human expression system derived from amniocytes, and Yuhan Co...

December 24, 2012 | Monday | News
Kinex will lead Orascovery program in China

Singapore: Kinex Pharmaceuticals and Hanmi Pharmaceutical announced the execution of an agreement for Kinex Pharmaceutic...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Seegene gives food safety tech license to bioMérieux

Singapore: Seegene, a leading developer of multiplexed molecular technologies and diagnostic tests, has given bioMéri...

April 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
One drug for three diseases

VM202 is a DNA-based drug that is designed to produce two isoforms of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) - HGF 728 and HGF ...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
What were Asia's Top 20 bio companies in 2012?

During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording ...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
What were the top 20 global M&A transactions of 2012?

A majority of life science firms are standing on the edge of the patent cliff and their drug pipelines are experiencing ...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Samsung forays into medtech market in India

Samsung India strengthened its presence in the health and medical equipment business in the country by launching digital...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Telemedicine is revolutionizing healthcare access

Telemedicine is re-defining access to healthcare in many ways. It has, in particular, proved to be an effective solution...

November 30, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
CrystalGenomics antibiotic gives positive results in trial

Singapore: CrystalGenomics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Korea, has received the draft of...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Samsung strengthens wearable device portfolio

Singapore: Samsung Electronics is set to launch all-in-one advanced system logic chip, Bio-Processor, for the health-ori...

December 29, 2015 | Tuesday | News
PharmAbcine uses Avacta instrument for R&D

Singapore: Scientists at Korean biotech company PharmAbcine are completing formulation and stability studies based on Op...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
ASKLEP joins Medidata partner program

Singapore: ASKLEP, a leading Tokyo-based provider of clinical research services, has joined the Medidata Solutions Part...

December 20, 2012 | Thursday | News