EDITOR'S LETTER

EYE ON CHINA

• Pfizer Advances Biosimilars Leadership with Investment in a New World-Class Global Biotechnology Center in China
• Global Experts Convene to Discuss China's Plan for Diabetes Prevention and Rehabilitation in 2016
• Synthace Awarded Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
• GSK Institute for Infectious Diseases and Public Health to Partner with Tsinghua University to Tackle Global Public Health Challenges
• Fangyuan Pharmaceutical Invests Heavily in R&D of New Drugs for Treatment of Superbacteria
• Research Centers to Boost New Zealand-China Science Collaboration
• Dehaier Medical Systems Ltd. Cooperates with China Sciences Group (Holding) Co., Ltd. to Enter China's Elderly Sleep Apnea Market
• Yisheng Biopharma and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Announce Positive Animal Results of Vaccine against Ebola Virus
• Ally Bridge Group (ABG) Expands Personalized Medicine Portfolio, Invests in LinkDoc Technology Limited, China's Oncology Big Data Company
• Infinitus Establishes International Research Center to Promote Research into the Safety of Chinese Herbal Medicines
• Local Scientists Invent Novel DNA Testing Technology to Raise Test Accuracy
• Butterflies Offer Climate Scientists Ecological Insights

FEATURES

• High-Throughput Sequencing on a Next Generation Sequencer to Identify Specific Binders from a Phage Library
• Antibody Solution Viscosity and Intermolecular Interactions: Considerations for Development of Highly Concentrated Formulations
• Display of Membrane Proteins on a Viral Envelope for Antibody Generation
• Sequence and Structural Determinants of Antigen Binding in Antibody CDR Loops
• Enhancement of the Stability of Single Chain Fv Molecules with the Amino Acid Substitutions Predicted by High-Performance Computer
• Thermal Stability of Camelid Single Domain VHH Antibody

SPOTLIGHTS

• New Discovery: Interleukin-25 Induced by Q2-3 to Suppress Tumour Metastasis
• MEDNIVA Develops New Science-based Teaching Method for Healthcare Industry

HEALTH COLUMNS

• That Gut Feeling: How A Healthy Digestive System Has Everything To Do With It
• World Heart Day – At the Heart of Health

INSIDE INDUSTRY

• Asia’s Medical Technology Start-ups Get New Fast Track to Market via Partnership between Cambridge Consultants and Clearbridge Accelerator
• Mitsubishi Electric and Sembcorp Industries to Testbed Novel Ozone Backwashing Energy-Saving Membrane Bioreactor
• LEO Pharma Enters Biologics through Strategic Partnership with AstraZeneca
• Bayer and X-Chem Expand Drug Discovery Collaboration to Discover Novel Medicines
• New Gas Chromatography System Brings Power of Orbitrap GC-MS Technology to Routine Applications
• A*STAR and MSD Establish a New Research Collaboration to Advance Peptide Therapeutics
• Stem Cells Engineered to Grow Cartilage, Fight Inflammation

BIOBOARD

SINGAPORE

• A New Way of Looking at Cancer
• Novel Discovery by NUS Scientists Improves Profiling of AML Patients for Targeted Therapies
• Red Meat Consumption Linked with Increased Risk of Developing Kidney Failure
• Thomson Medical and UK-based Cell Therapy Limited Collaborate on Stem Cell Research to Develop Regenerative Medicines

UNITED STATES

• New Biomaterial Developed for Injectable Neuronal Control
• Research Shines Light on Lesser Known Form of Vitamin D in Foods
• MRIGlobal to Lead International Research Collaboration for Tularemia Vaccine

INDIA

• Improving Agricultural Yield and Quality through Tissue Culture Technology

TAIWAN

• A Cascade of Protein Aggregation Bombards Mitochondria for Neurodegeneration and Apoptosis under WWOX Deficiency

CONFERENCE CALENDAR