Industry Watch
•  CSL Focuses on Plasma Industry
•  First Cancer Gene Therapy Approved in China
•  Top 100 Chinese Medical Enterprises in 2003
•  GlaxoSmithKline Launches New Cancer and Heart Disorder Drugs

Products/Services Highlight
•  Latest Virus Mask in Japan
•  Qxymix for Pre-Term Babies

Research Findings
•  Singapore Researchers Discover the Obesity Protein
•  Treatment for Muscle Atrophy with Myostatin Protein

Rules & Regulations
•  Indian: Capital Punishment for Spurious Drugs Makers
•  Japan to Allow Limited Stem Cell Research

Agriculture
•  Framers Agribiotech Exchange Workshop
•  Singapore to House Syngenta's Regional HQ

Commentaries & Analyses
•  Keeping Up Intellectual Property Lifelines for Life Sciences Ventures
•  Impact of the SARS Outbreak on the Australian Economy
•  Body, Heal Thyself?

General News
•  Indian Government Waives Duties on AIDS Drugs
•  Indian Biotech Industry Creates One Million New Jobs
•  Japan Investigates Antibiotics-fed Livestock Effect on Humans
•  Japanese Team Tackles Infectious Diseases

Global Development
•  WHO Update on Avian Influenza A (H5N1) -- 14 January 2004
•  WHO Update on Influenza A (H3N2) -- 13 January 2004
•  Endo wins suit to sell generic drug

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