BioBoard
•  Singapore's NTU and France's CNRS Goes into Partnership
•  Johns Hopkins Opens International Medical Center in Singapore
•  Two Australian Scientists Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine, 2005
•  Scientists from Singapore Awarded for their Research
•  1918 Spanish Flu Virus Similar to Modern Avian Flu Virus
•  Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew Comments on Life Science Industry in Singapore
•  Top Scientists and Policy Makers Meet in Kyoto
•  Dengue Outbreak Continues in Asia
•  Update on Bird Flu - Dead Duck found Infected with Bird Flu in Romania, 2000 Birds Dead in Turkey
•  Biotech Stocks Rise on Bird Flu Scare
•  Merck's Cancer Vaccine
•  HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign at Malaysia's Varsity
•  Horse Flu Virus Infects Dogs

Special Feature
•  Building Biotech Without Building Companies
•  Japan's Bio Ventures Today-GNI Ltd
•  Ten Tips for Science Entrepreneurs

Industry Watch
•  Leading US Neuroscientist Appointed Chief Scientific Officer of Living Cell Technologies
•  Trillium Therapeutics Acquires Australia-based Arthron Ltd
•  Star Pharmaceutical Seeks Singapore Stock Market Listing
•  Astellas and MerLion Collaborate to Develop Natural Products Drug Candidate
•  Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Signs Agreement with Merck & Co
•  Biosensors Bags US Patent for Heart Stent Technology
•  MerLion Pharma and Cancer Research Technology Announce Drug Discovery Collaboration
•  OctoPlus and SingVax Collaborate to Develop Single-shot Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine
•  Rockeby Moves into African Marketing

Products/Services Highlights
•  Germany-based ibidi Launches the µ-Dish for Long-term Cell Culture
•  Wireless Temperature Monitoring and Location Tracking System

Research Findings
•  FANTOM Study Challenges Current Understanding of Genome
•  Singapore Big on Cardiovascular Research
•  Scientists Create GM Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria
•  Transgenic Zebrafish Offer New Hope for Cancer Research

Agriculture
•  Olive Oil As the Painkiller

Alternative Medicine
•  New Radical Chinese Cancer Treatment Introduced to the Western World

General News
•  Collaboration of the Two Giants-A*STAR and RIKEN
•  Duke's Perspective-The New Graduate Medical School in Singapore
•  Singapore Life Sciences Sector Benefi ts from India's Patent Laws

People
•  People Profile-Professor Joseph Kwok-Kwong Li

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