EDITOR'S LETTER

EYE ON CHINA

• Shenzhen biotech companies building the world's largest cell bank in Guizhou
• China's cancer researcher shares 2018's Sjoberg Prize of Sweden
• Breakthrough may help with earlier detection of heart attacks and cancer
• New dialyzer to isolate bacteria from unprocessed blood
• Chinese scientists develop new protocols for DNA-free genome editing in wheat
• Synthesized herbs to treat cardio-cerebrovascular disease
• Chinese scientists find antidote to centipede venom
• Grünenthal and Mundipharma enter commercial partnership in China
• Tencent and Medopad to cooperate on medical AI
• Majority of oncology clinical trials in China failed to meet enrolment targets
• WuXi STA and Regulus announce microRNA development and manufacturing collaboration

COLUMNS

• Brain aging in ASEAN
• What value-based healthcare means for Asia
• Improve healthcare access to tackle Asia's healthcare challenge

FEATURES

• Empowering nutrition via biotechnology
• Feeding Asia's children

SPOTLIGHTS

• Passionate in Science
• Making a difference
• Women in Science

INSIDE INDUSTRY

• Biotech merger and acquisition deal activity skyrockets in early 2018
• Telix Pharmaceuticals establishes Japanese Subsidiary, appoints key executives
• Engine Biosciences raises US$10 million in largest institutional seed financing in South East Asia
• Vetter introduces South Korea's pharma and biotech community to meet company management
• Anatara achieves major US FDA milestone in the registration of Detach^® with approval of the Human Food Safety Dossier FIP appoints new chief executive officer
• Accuron MedTech partners SPRING Singapore to co-invest in Singapore's innovative start-ups
• Tychan's first-in-class Zika monoclonal antibody therapeutics ready for human trial after nine months of development
• Merck invests additional €40 million to enhance manufacturing and distribution in Asia

BIOBOARD

ASIA

• The first Greater Bay Area biotechnology and translational medicine international collaboration
• New insight on therapeutic treatment for mental disorders

OCEANIA

• Multiple chronic diseases leave patients with adversely high costs

AMERICAS

• Measuring the risks and rewards of drug development
• Ketone drink could help diabetics by lowering blood sugar

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