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Australia • Mosquito Parasite Could Control Dengue
China • China has Twice the Global Average of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis • 80 000 Antibiotics Abuse-related Deaths Annually • Bird Flu Found in Chicken from China • China on Alert following Bird Flu Death • Chinese Dairies to Compensate Tainted Milk Victims' Families • New Insulin Resistance Tricks Found • World's First Plant Chromosome Atlas • Project Launched to Study Structure of Proteins • Fake Diabetes Drug Linked to Two Deaths • Birth Defects Rising in Polluted China
India • India Culls Poultry in Darjeeling After Bird Flu • India Introduces Second-Line Anti-retroviral Treatment in Eight States • Indian Medical Tourism to Reach US$1.9 billion by 2015 • Canadian and Indian Ministers Sign Pact on Agriculture Cooperation • 6000 year-old Rice Species Discovered in Meghalaya • Genetics to Help Conserve Rare Bird Species
Japan • Coating the Protein Enhances Disease-fighting Capability • Scientists Isolate Genes that Made 1918 Flu Lethal • Researchers in Japan Develop All-round Flu Vaccine
Philippines • Ebola Reston Virus Found in Filipino Farm Worker
Singapore • New Method to Create iPS Cells • Ray of Hope for Liver Cancer Sufferers • Bacteria Improve Energy and Cost Efficiency in Water Treatment
Taiwan • Secrets of “Speciation” Gene Unravelled • Initial Breakthrough in Poultry Vaccine Development • Taiwan Gains Direct Access to WHO
Vietnam • Doctors Report First Drug Hypersensitivity Syndrome • Public Advised Serious Caution Against Bird Flu
OTHER REGIONS North America • Kids of Pregnant Drinking Mums will Like Booze • High Functional Diversity in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Driven By Genetic Drift And Human Demography • Newly Discovered Tuberculosis Protein May Help Explain Bacterium's Resilience • U.S. Patent For Diagnostic Technology Awarded To URMC, Lighthouse Biosciences
Europe • Structure Mediating Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Discovered • New EU Pesticide Regulations Will Undermine Fight against Malaria • IPill – The Smart Drug Delivery that can "Call" the Doctor • What Drives Locusts to Swarm
Feature • Novel Photodynamic Therapy of Emerging and Re-emerging Medically Important Viruses • TEM PCR Enhances Infectious Disease Diagnosis
Industry Watch • Xenome's Library Licensed to MedImmune for a Discovery Partnership • pSivida Moving into Cardiovascular Drug Delivery Evaluation • Bringing Unique Automated Robotic Systems into China's Healthcare • WuXi AppTec Adopts H-Cube(R) from ThalesNano for Laboratory-based Hydrogenation • Orexo's Abstral Granted to NovaMed to Break into China's Market • Dow India and Royal Castor Collaborate in Castor Oil R&D • Arcadia Biosciences and Advanta to Develop Nitrogen Use Efficient Sorghum • First Plasma Fractionation Facility in India to Meet Self-sufficiency • Daiichi Sankyo Collaborates with The Kitasato Institute to Control Emerging Infectious Diseases • JAK2 Inhibitors Developed by S*BIO Target Inroads to North American and European Markets • Abbott Bases its First Asian R&D Site in Singapore • Singapore and France Tie Up to Build Antibody-Based Therapies • AsiaMedic Forges Partnership to Expand into Middle East Market • South Korean and U.S. Biopharma Conduct Phase II JX-594 Trial for Liver Cancer
Research and Findings • Scientific Breakthrough – Starving Malaria Parasites Curbs the Disease • Back to Nature — Medicinal Plants of Nepal Point New Direction to Drug Discovery
People Watch Singapore • Chinese Physician Appointed to Lead Clinical Operations of MDS Pharma Services in Asia • Swiss to Helm Takeda Pharmaceuticals Asia Private Limited as New CEO • First Asian Honored Prestigious American Award • I2R's Researcher Selected as One of the Only Two Nokia Visiting Professors for 2009 • International Business Honcho Appointed as New Country CEO for Siemens Singapore
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