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INDIA • Ozone eating away Indian crop yields • Polio shots better than oral drops, says study
JAPAN • Natural protein in rice helps keep arsenic out in grains
THE PHILIPPINES • Philippines adopts inactivated polio vaccine strategy
SINGAPORE • A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics and Singapore Biomicro to develop a first-of-its-kind, implantable wireless blood glucose monitoring sensor device
THAILAND • Ebola-affected countries face new threat: food crisis • Fending off dengue with insecticide-treated uniforms
AFRICA • New test to combat major cause of preventable blindness in Africa
BANGLADESH • Arsenic linked to lung cancer in Bangladesh
EUROPE • Human-milk-oligosaccharides can protect against noroviruses
UNITED STATES • Researchers discover possible cause of common dementia • Improved mouse model may accelerate research on potential Ebola vaccines and treatments • New device yields close-up look at metastasis • Scientists research ways to use an organism's own pathway to synthesize potential therapeutics
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS • Quality issues in herbal medicine clinical trials
EYE ON CHINA • Clinical Genomics signs Chinese colorectal screening deal • WuXi PharmaTech laboratory testing division expands in U.S. with acquisition of XenoBiotic Laboratories • Roche to invest 450 million Swiss Francs in new diagnostic manufacturing facility in China • SCYNEXIS, Inc. enters into agreement with Waterstone Pharmaceutical for the development and commercialization of treatment for viral diseases • Johnson & Johnson Innovation launches Asia Pacific Innovation Center • ScinoPharm and Nanjing King-friend Biochemical Pharmaceutical team up to jointly enter the Chinese market for new drugs • Ascletis gains exclusive China market rights from Presidio for clinical stage Hepatitis C virus inhibitor • Irvine Pharmaceutical Services opens an analytical facility in Hangzhou, China • Pioneering application of Google Glass by Renji Hospital • WuXi PharmaTech launches representative office in Israel, forms strategic collaboration with Pontifax • International Symposium on molecular biology of fruit trees held at Huazhong Agricultural University
FEATURES • Bacteremia Diagnosis at Point of Care • The Life of a Cancer Causing Parasite • New Antifungals or Old?
PEOPLE WATCH • D Printing in the Medical World
INSIDE INDUSTRY • Lupus Research Institute awards $1-million grants to discover what causes lupus • AstraZeneca and Pharmacyclics enter clinical trial collaborations in oncology • Singapore — the global launch pad for game-changing clinical trials initiative • MedImmune strengthens immuno-oncology capabilities with acquisition of Definiens • AOP Orphan to bring Thromboreductin庐 to the Russian market • PPP launched to improve prevention of women's cancers and quality of cancer registries in Latin America and the Caribbean • National Heart Research Institute Singapore and Thermo Fisher Scientific team up to further enhance stem cell research techniques • Felicitex Therapeutics and Selvita initiate strategic collaboration to target cancer quiescence • WomenHeart launches first campaign to improve quality of life and reduce hospitalizations for women living with heart failure • President's Science and Technology Awards 2014 honors outstanding scientific talent for their contributions to Singapore's R&D landscape
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