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MiRxes Raises $77M in Series C Round to Speed Progress of Early Cancer Detection Tests

The Singapore-based company's tests look for blood-borne microRNA and other molecular signatures released by cancer and immune cells.

Avatamed, A*STAR Launch Joint Precision Oncology Lab in Singapore

Together with Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Avatamed will offer its drug screening platform to oncologists and drugmakers.

Singapore Precision Medicine Program to Analyze Genetics of 150K Citizens

The program is part of a 10-year initiative focused on establishing the frameworks and infrastructure to roll out precision medicine throughout the country.

Lucence, Waseda University Partner to Develop Laser-Based Liquid Biopsy Platform

The partners believe the platform, which captures high resolution images of CTCs and clusters, has potential applications in early cancer detection and disease monitoring.

Spatial Omics Firms Use AGBT as Launchpad for New Tech
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Vizgen, Rebus Biosystems, and Veranome Biosystems described their FISH-based platforms for spatial gene expression analysis for the first time.

Jan 19, 2021

MiRxes Receives CE Mark, Singapore Regulatory Approval for Multiplex SARS-CoV-2, Flu Test

Nov 4, 2020

Singapore's MiRxes Sets Out to Sell Gastric Cancer Test Across Asia
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Aug 12, 2020

ImmunoScape Using $11M Funding Round to Establish US Operations
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Aug 12, 2020

ImmunoScape Raises $11M to Support Development of Immune Profiling Platform

Aug 10, 2020

Singapore's Avatamed Raises $1M in Seed Funding

Mar 27, 2020

10x Genomics Joins Single-Cell Multi-Omics Alliance to Develop Antibody Therapies for Coronavirus

Mar 16, 2020

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $400K in Funding for Asian Immune Cell Atlas Project

Mar 3, 2020

Singapore Clears New SARS-CoV-2 Assay for Clinical Use

Feb 3, 2020

Lung Adenocarcinoma Genomic Features Differ in East Asians, Europeans

Oct 17, 2019

Three Asian Populations Sequenced for Singapore 10K Genome Project

Sep 19, 2019

Inex Innovate to Launch New Molecular Tests for Ovarian Cancer, Breast Cancer in Asia
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Sep 10, 2019

Biolidics, A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore to Develop Liquid Biopsy Breast Cancer Test

Jul 10, 2019

One BioMed Raises $5M in Series A Round

Dec 18, 2018

Indivumed, A*STAR Collaborate on Asian-Centric Cancer Database for Personalized Oncology

Dec 6, 2018

Cancer Early Detection Firm Ark Launches With $40M Series A Investment

Jul 3, 2018

Indivumed Partners With A*STAR to Build Out Cancer Database

May 22, 2018

Recessive Mutation May Cause New Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Dec 14, 2017

Inex Innovations Exchange Developing Fetal Cell-Based NIPT to Expand Test Portfolio
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Nov 21, 2017

MiRxes Rolls out Gastric Cancer qPCR Dx in Europe; Expands Operations to US, Asia
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Nov 20, 2017

Inex Innovations Licenses NIPT Technology From A*STAR

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Back as Director

A court has reinstated Nicole Boivin as director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Science reports.

Research, But Implementation?

Francis Collins reflects on his years as the director of the US National Institutes of Health with NPR.

For the False Negatives

The Guardian writes that the UK Health Security Agency is considering legal action against the lab that reported thousands of false negative COVID-19 test results.

Genome Biology Papers Present Epigenetics Benchmarking Resource, Genomic Architecture Maps of Peanuts, More

In Genome Biology this week: DNA methylation data for seven reference cell lines, three-dimensional genome architecture maps of peanut lines, and more.