07-05-2013

Scientists from Singapore report the development of a nanoparticle-based drug delivery vehicle that is capable of releasing drugs upon external stimuli. They have made amphiphilic polymer coated gold nanoparticles which self-assemble into vesicles. The hydrophobic polymer on the gold ...

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08-01-2013

The Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No.1 (VABIOTECH) and Inviragen, Inc. announced a licensing agreement by which VABIOTECH will acquire rights to Inviragen’s proprietary Japanese encephalitis (JE) technology to produce a cell-derived vaccine. A cell-based JE vaccine has the ...

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22-11-2012

Clearbridge BioMedics won the top three awards at Asian Innovation Awards 2012. Clearbridge BioMedics took the grand prize for The Asian Innovation Awards 2012, which recognises innovations that break conventional processes to improve quality of life or productivity. Clearbridge BioMedics ...

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01-08-2012

By studying fruit flies, scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have successfully devised a fast and cost-saving way to uncover genetic changes that have a higher potential to cause cancer. With this new approach, researchers will now be able to rapidly ...

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19-07-2012

BioStorage Technologies is expandingits services to the Asia Pacific region. This expansion includes theappointment of Jason Huang as General Manager of Asia Pacific (APAC). Headquartered in Singapore andoperating in China as a wholly owned foreign enterprise (WOFE), ...

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14-06-2012

A team of scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) together with clinicians from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a unique set of cells in the cervix that are the cause of human papillomaviruses (HPV) ...

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11-06-2012

Gyros AB announced that Bio Laboratories Pte Ltd has become sole distributor for the company’s nanoliter-scale immunoassay platform in Singapore. “We are very pleased to expand our reach in Asia through this new partnership with Bio Laboratories, which provides a valuable addition to our ...

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31-05-2012

The close collaboration between scientists from the Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) under the Agency for Science and Technology Research (A*STAR) and clinicians from Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) has enabled the successful development of the most comprehensive and rapid H5N1 bird flu ...

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18-05-2012

Clearbridge BioMedics has won the 2012 Asian Entrepreneurship Awards, which was held from 9-11 May 2012 in Kashiwanoha, Chiba Prefecture in Japan. A total of 18 start-up companies, from 12 Asian countries presented their business plans at this inaugural business competition. Clearbridge ...

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15-05-2012

Scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), in collaboration with doctors and scientists in Jordan, Turkey, Switzerland and USA, have identified the genetic cause of a birth defect known as Hamamy syndrome. Their groundbreaking findings were published in Nature Genetics. The ...

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