BioBoard
•  New Test That Could Detect Alzheimer's Early
•  miR-375 - Possible Avenue for Diabetes Treatment?
•  Avexa Opens Lab in Shanghai
•  Vaccine-based Male Contraceptive?
•  NIH Grants
•  AusBiotech Signs MOU with ABLE

Industry Watch
•  Amrad's Asthma Drug on Track
•  Iliad's Cancer Drug Demonstrates Efficacy
•  Biocon to Launch Its First Cancer Drugs by Late 2005
•  Ranbaxy's AIDS Drugs Withdrawn from WHO Prequalified List
•  New Ticel Research Center Established in Chennai
•  Shionogi Launches Claritin^� RediTabs^� in Japan
•  Japanese Business Sentiment in Asia Continues to Decline
•  Major Milestone for Singapore Biologics Contract Manufacturer
•  CordLife Forms a New Company
•  Singapore's Merlin Medical Advances

Research Findings
•  Orchids Can Be Made to Bloom Faster!

Alternative Medicine
•  TCM and Common Herbs

General News
•  Genetic Engineering of Smallpox Virus for Drug Development?
•  No Resolution in Sight as United Nations Members Debate Human Cloning
•  Kyoto Protocol to Effect Early Next Year

Education
•  Sweden's World-Renowned Karolinska Institutet Establishes Office at Singapore University

Conference Calendar