EDITOR'S LETTER

EYE ON CHINA

• Mab-Venture Biopharma & Thermo Fisher Establish Asia Pacific's First "SmartFactory" for Antibody Drugs
• Venus Medtech's TAVR Device Is Approved By CFDA, Creating A New Era of Interventional Cardiology in China
• Key Diabetes Receptor Structure Determined by International Collaboration
• China Sets Up National Lab Developing Brain-Like AI Technology
• Chinese Scientists Realize On-site Drug Detection
• Scientists Map Single-Copy HIV-1 Provirus Loci in Human Chromosomes in Live Host Cells
• Gene Variant Explains Differences in Blood Fatty Acid Levels
• Scientists Illustrate How Host Cell Responds to Zika Virus Infection

FEATURES

• Future Foods for Health: Innovations in Dietary Modifications for Diabetes
• Kosmode Health: Technology that Expands Access to Health from Nature
• Halal Certified Food: Processing, Technology and Regulations

• Drones, Robots and Food
• Finding PALE GREEN1, a Missing Piece of the Vitamin B1 Biosynthesis Pathway
• Death by Medical Errors: How Evidence-based Information Can Save Lives (Interview with Dr Ujjwal Rao, Clinical Specialist at Elsevier)

INSIDE INDUSTRY

• Inova Translational Medicine Institute Partners with Cloudera to Advance Genome-Based Machine Learning Initiatives and Save Lives
• INVOKANA™ (canagliflozin) Significantly Reduces the Combined Risk of Cardiovascular Death, Myocardial Infarction and Stroke in the CANVAS Program
• Future Health Index Commissioned by Philips Reveals Singaporeans Underestimate Adoption of Connected Care Technology, and Highlights Need for More Focus on Preventive Healthcare
• Singaporeans’ Pain Costs Economy USD 6.2 billion Each Year
• Vetter and Microdermics Enter into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Develop Innovative Microneedle Drug Delivery Systems
• Merck Awarded its First CRISPR Patent by Australian Patent Office
• Zebra Boosts Healthcare Portfolio with New Visibility Solutions and Partnership with GE Healthcare

BIOBOARD

SINGAPORE

• Human Heart Tissue Grown from Stem Cells Improves Drug Testing

UNITED STATES

• Bioengineered Human Livers Mimic Natural Development
• New Cellular Target May Put the Brakes on Cancer’s Ability to Spread
• Does Consuming Low-Fat Dairy Increase the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease?
• Memory Loss and Other Cognitive Decline Linked to Blood Vessel Disease in the Brain

AUSTRALIA

• Fabricating High Performance Nanohybrid Catalysts

TAIWAN

• US FDA Approves Zhaohe Cao-based Botanical Drug as an Investigational New Drug for Cancer Therapy

KOREA

• Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee Elected to the NAS

CONFERENCE CALENDAR