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Company News • Progen's Anti-cancer Drug Shows Promising Human Trial Data • Acrux Reports Progress for Treatment of Female Sexual Dysfunction • Clinical Reagent Ready for Agenix's Blood Clot Imaging Project • Austcancer's Vaccine Human Trials Show Strong Results • Shanghai Desano to Sell Domestically Produced AIDS Drug • Shanghai Boxing Develops Bio Chip that Identifies GM Plants • Ranbaxy In-licenses New Biological Entity for Brain Cancer • Wockhardt and Daiichi in Collaboration for Hemorrhage Drug • Nicholas Piramal to Merge with Global Drugs • Shionogi in Agreement with Pharmagene for Target and Compound Validation Capabilities • Eisai's Treatment of H. pylori Infection Approved by US • Tanabe Seiyaku and Altana in Roflumilast Cooperation in Japan • In2Gen Co. Ltd. • InBioNET Corp. • Agriquality Buys out Melbourne Gene Lab • Singapore Consulting Practice Brings Biomedical Firms to Asia • A-Bio Pharma is Singapore's First Commercial Scale Biologics Manufacturer • Abbott and MerLion in Drug Discovery Collaboration • Lilly Systems Biology Research Center Established in Singapore
Rules & Regulations • India Mulling on GM Mustard • rDNA Products to be Drafted into India's Drugs Act • Korea Approves Import of US Biotech Crops • Singapore Rolls out Report on Human Tissue Research
Research News • DNA Fingerprinting from a Single Cell • Genes Involved in Multiple Sclerosis Identified • Virus DNA may Predict Head and Neck Cancer Outcome • Chinese Scientists Publish Research Findings on Rice Chromosome Four Sequencing • Safer and More Effective Chicken Pox VaccineResearch News • India to Launch AIDS Vaccine Trials • Ginkgo Leaf Products Found to Contain Allergen • Japan-US R&D Agreement on New Pharmaceuticals • Drug for Huntingdon's Disease to be Developed • New Treatment for Pain in the Neck • Cryptomonadales Lowers Blood Fat and Sugar Levels • Lacquer Sap to be Studied for Anti-cancer Properties • Micro-technology Oral Vaccine for Pig • The Institute of Biomedical Sciences in Taiwan
General Information & Statistics • Australian Scientists in Real-time Virtual Surgery • China Invests US$36 Million to Set up Plant Gene Banks • India, Germany to Jointly Promote Biotech Research • Firms Urged to Lower Costs of Anti-HIV Drugs • Japanese Private Sector May Stop Funds to AIDS Body • Malaysian Institute Collaborates with Drug Firm • Parkinson's Disease Research Gets NZ$1.2 Million Funding • Online Food Composition Database Available • NZ Recalls Blood Pressure Medicine • Conference on Biotechnology Awareness in the Philippines • Singapore Sets up New Cancer Research Body • Singapore Attracts Attention of Life Sciences Firms • Thailand Ponders Adopting GM Crops
Trends and Prospects • Biotech Start-ups Looking for Foreign Funding • Alarming Trends in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes • Asian Scientists to Develop Water-less "Aerobic" Rice
Patent News • Fonterra Seeks Patent in Milk Proteins
Calendar of Events • A comprehensive listing of upcoming biotechnology conferences in Asia-Pacific