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Australia • Laser Method to Restore Sight an Aussie Miracle • Brain Estrogen Shows Promise as Schizophrenia Treatment • New Blood Test for Newborns to Detect Allergy Risk • UQ Wins $6.5 Million for Groundbreaking Research Projects
China • China: New HIV Model Suggests Killer T Cell for Vaccine • 17 Babies Injected with Expired Medicine • Substandard Human Rabies Vaccine Recalled • China Faces New Health Scare Over 'Bad Vaccines'
India • Artificial Blood Vessels Developed from Jatropha • India and Germany to Initiate Joint Research in Oncology, Regenerative Medicine, Neurosciences • Indian Scientists Decode TB Bacteria Genome • Nearly Half a Million Foreigners Throng India for Cheap Treatment • Transgenic Chicken for Therapeutic Use Developed
Japan • Japan's Miyazaki Beef Threatened by Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak
Singapore • Number of Flu Cases Near Epidemic Levels • $140m Expansion to Increase R&D Space at The Biopolis • Singapore Scientists' Zebrafish Model for Parkinson's Disease an Important Step Closer to Drug Development for the Disease • Painless, Cheaper Way to Diagnose Bladder Cancer • Fujitsu Establishes its First Biomedical Research Laboratory in Singapore • A*Star, MRC Grant $4.5m for Six Research Projects • Singapore Scientists Exploit p53 to Improve Cancer Treatment
Taiwan • First Prostrate Cancer Vaccine a Major Breakthrough
Feature • Biodiversity Conservation is Everyone's Business • Search for ASEAN Champions of Biodiversity is On • Drug Companies Reduce Prices of Medicines • SWS: Make Health A Priority, Filipinos Ask Next Leaders • New Vein Harvesting Technology • Mobile Health Records in Malaysia • Faster, Accurately Targeted Radiation Cancer Patients • SingHealth Selects IBM and SAP To Transform HR Processes
Industry Watch • Mesoblast to Acquire Angioblast Systems Inc • Ansell Unveils First Antimicrobial Surgical Glove • OriGene to Build World's Largest MAb Facility in China • Zydus Cadila to Launch India's First H1N1 Vaccine • Abbott Acquires India's Piramal Health for $3.72 bn • Mantrax Ventures and TCG Lifesciences Collaborate • Protox Therapeutics, Kissei Pharmaceutical in Prostate Cancer Deal • First Transcatheter Valve Clinical Trial in Japan Treats Patients with Edwards SAPIEN XT Valve • South Korean Firm Develops Drug to Kill Leukemia Stem Cells • GSK Extends Presence in Asia with New Strategic Alliance in South Korea • World's Most Comprehensive Nanoparticle System Unveiled • *BIO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals Expand Development, Commercialization Collaboration for JAK2 Inhibitors • SIRO Clinpharm Forms Alliance with Taiwan's VCRO
Research and Findings • Discovery of Crucial Protein Interaction Sheds Light on Mental Retardation • Scientists Find Genes Associated with Throat Cancer
People Watch • Imperial College London Bestows its Highest Honor on A8STAr Chairman Lim Chuan Poh • UQ Researcher Receives $1000, 000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant
Conference Calendar• UQ Scientist Receives AAS Honor