Medical education in Singapore goes ‘Holographic’ with mixed reality from Microsoft

From April 2022, medical and nursing students at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore will be using three-di...

January 12, 2022 | Wednesday | News
GSK Singapore launches Shingrix vaccine against shingles (herpes zoster)

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Singapore has launched a new vaccine to help protect against shingles, Shingrix, in...

January 10, 2022 | Monday | News
US-based Allay Therapeutics expands operations in Singapore

Allay Therapeutics, a US-based clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering ultra-sustained analgesic products to tra...

January 7, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore recommends booster dose at no later than 9 months

The Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination (EC19V) in Singapore recommends that all vaccinated persons aged 18 years a...

January 6, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore sets stringent regulations for COVID-19 test kits for professional use

With effect from 1 January 2022, only COVID-19 tests that have received full-fledged registration with Singapore's Healt...

January 5, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Singapore inks MoU with Russia for research opportunities

National University of Singapore (NUS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Russia’s Skolkovo Insti...

December 24, 2021 | Friday | News
One antibody to neutralise both Zika & Dengue viruses in different ways: Singapore study

A research team from the Department of Biological Sciences and the Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singa...

December 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops algorithm to assess immunotherapy benefit in stomach cancer patients

Recent clinical studies indicate that patients with stomach cancer treated with a combination of immunotherapy and chemo...

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore establishes pancreas transplantation service as national programme

With the approval by the Ministry of Health (Singapore) for the pancreas transplantation service as a national programme...

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore deploys 3D printing to make knee brace for elderly

A lighter, yet more robust knee brace for the elderly who suffer from knee problems has been developed locally by Singap...

December 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore explores link between Zika virus infection and birth defects

The Zika virus shunts carbon atoms away from the important glucose metabolism pathway in infected foetuses, leading to a...

December 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore identifies new bacteria to better understand infections

  Singapore scientists have identified and named a new species of bacteria, Staphylococcus singaporensis sp.nov, n...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore extends use of Pfizer vaccine for children of age 5 to 11

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has extended the authorisation of Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer-...

December 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore develops anti-coagulant drugs from tick parasite

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a series of thrombin inhibitors to b...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore develops COVID-19 saliva amplified antigen rapid test

A potentially game-changing Antigen Rapid Test (ART) technology to diagnose COVID-19 has been developed by scientists in...

December 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore reveals why chemotherapy fails for some blood cancer patients

Mutations in a crucial gene are the key reason that chemotherapy fails in some patients with blood cancer, a study by Na...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore secures additional supply of mAb sotrovimab for COVID-19 treatment

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Singapore has announced an agreement with the Government of Singapore to supply additional doses o...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hilleman Lab establishes a pilot manufacturing facility for vaccine development in Singapore

Hilleman Laboratories, an organisation with a mission to develop affordable vaccines and biologics against infectious di...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News