Tag: Asia
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Institutions Join Global Health Breakthrough Network
Wellcome Leap aims to establish a model for faster design and development of health breakthroughs, beginning with elimination of administrative obstacles.
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Financial Asset Managers Supporting Net Zero Emissions
Thirty asset managers, directing investments worth some $9 trillion, agreed to encourage their clients to achieve global net zero greenhouse gas emission goals.
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Start-Up Creating Digital Therapies for Alzheimer’s
A new enterprise is developing personalized digital therapeutics for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Int’l Lab Network to Assess Covid-19 Vaccines
Six clinical testing laboratories worldwide plan to evaluate vaccines for protecting against Covid-19 infections with a common set of test protocols.
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Biotechs, Univ. Labs Partner on Covid-19 Combo Therapy
Two biotechnology companies are developing a Covid-19 treatment that combines engineered antibodies and natural killer immune system cells.
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Glove-App System Translates Sign Language to Speech
University engineers designed a glove with electronic sensors that sends signals to a smartphone app to translate American Sign Language into audible speech.
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Covid-19 Vaccine for Lower-Income Regions Underway
Researchers in the U.K. designed a vaccine to prevent Covid-19 infections and is starting an enterprise to make it available to lower-income countries.
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Industry, Univ. Labs Partner on Covid-19 Therapy
Researchers from industry and academic labs are developing a synthetic antibody that in lab tests shows promise as both a Covid-19 therapy and vaccine.
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Covid-19 Therapies Designed with Virtual Reality, A.I.
Two companies are using deep learning and virtual reality to design treatments for Covid-19 infections, attacking a different target than most drugs being developed.
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Stem Cell Therapy Licensed for Genetic Eye Disease
A biotechnology company is licensing its stem cell treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease, in a deal valued at $252 million.