Hanmi Pharmaceutical said it would develop antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) using bispecific antibody platform Pentambody with Beijing Hanmi Pharm (Beijing Hanmi) and LegoChem Biosciences.Under the contract agreed on Thursday, Hanmi Pharmaceutical and LegoChem Biosciences would discover next-generatio
Theragen Bio has identified new predictors of diabetes risks through joint research with Professor Jeong Dong-hyeok of the Department of Family Medicine at Yongin Severance Hospital.Blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and albumin may be new predictors of diabetes risk, the company said.The join
A change in Korean media outlets’ reporting pattern of celebrities’ suicide has sharply lowered the suicide rate of ordinary people, Samsung Medical Center said Thursday.“The plunge of copycat suicides demonstrated the ‘Papageno effect” – restraint from reporting suicides in detail and the prudent c
The government on Thursday emphasized that a tight social distancing policy is imperative to reverse the resurge of new virus cases in the Seoul metro region and keep them from spreading to the rest of the country.It reiterated the emphasis as Korea's daily new coronavirus cases hit a fresh high of
Asan Medical Center said that it has improved the survival rate of pediatric patients with liver cancer, from 60 to more than 90 percent, by applying various surgery techniques."Hepatoblastoma in children is a malignant tumor of the liver in children, accounting for more than 95 percent of liver can
Japan is speeding up to secure therapeutics that work against the Covid-19 variants as the mutated versions hit the world hard once again.Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare officially approved Roche's Ronapreve (ingredient: casirivimab and imdevimab) for treating Covid-19 for the first t
inno.N said Thursday that it would enter the Kosdaq stock market early next month to jump to a global bio-health company.The company plans to raise 505.9-596.9 billion won ($440-$519 million) through the initial public offering of 10,117,000 shares at the expected price of 50,000-59,000 won, It will
Ono Pharma Korea and BMS Korea said Opdivo (ingredient: nivolumab) has improved gastric cancer patients' overall survival (OS) to provide a turning point in the treatment paradigm of cancer immunotherapy.Professor Rha Sun-young of the Medical Oncology Department at Yonsei Cancer Center introduced th
Politicians’ intervention in the nation’s anti-coronavirus fight has made a breach in its quarantine net. However, they don’t work out measures but blame others.A case in point is the Covid-19 self-diagnosis kits based on rapid antigen tests. Despite warnings from experts who pointed out that self-t
A consortium led by GL Rapha to produce Sputnik V, Russia's Covid-19 vaccine, is nearing its composition.Following ISU Abxis and Hankook Korus Pharm, Jetema has received technology transfer to finish preparations for manufacture as a member of the consortium.As GL Rapha has announced that it could s
Yuyu Pharma said Thursday that it has signed a deal with Novartis Korea to exclusively supply the latter's five prescription drugs for athlete's foot, dyslipidemia, and epilepsy in Korea.Under the accord, Yuyu Pharma would supply Lamisil (ingredient: terbinafine hydrochloride) for athlete's foot, Le
A team of Professors Jeong Han-gil and Kim Tack-eun of the Department of Neurology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital has developed an artificial intelligence model that analyzes chest radiography to diagnose cardioembolic strokes.Cerebral infarction is a type of stroke, which has a sympt
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) will fund $12.7 million to new clinical researches to expand access to vaccines in Africa.The Expanding Access and Delivery of Covid-19 Vaccines in Africa (ECOVA) consortium led by IVI will use t
Korea's daily Covid-19 tally hit another fresh high of over 1,700 on Wednesday, as cluster infections continued to spread across the nation coupled with the biggest military personnel outbreak.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 1,784 new virus cases, including 1,726 loc
The domestic diagnostic kit developers are in an uneasy atmosphere, as academicians and politicians point to self-testing kits as the main culprit behind the ongoing fourth Covid-19 wave.The health authorities did not deny the effects self-test kits had on the advent of the fourth wave."We are not c
Dong-A ST and its Japanese partner Meiji Seika Pharma signed a global license-out agreement with Intas Pharmaceuticals for DMB-3115, a biosimilar of the inflammatory disease treatment Stelara, the Korean company said Wednesday.Under the contract, Dong-A ST and Meiji Seika Pharma will research and de
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has suspended the sales of GSK's Tivicay 50mg Tab., a human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) treatment, for 15 days for failing to submit documents in applying for drug reexamination.According to industry sources, the ministry issued the 15-day sales suspension o
The exports of Covid-19 diagnostic kits exceeded 1 trillion won ($869.5 million) in the first half-year despite rising vaccinations worldwide.Korea maintained the export amount of around 170 billion won a month this year, customs officials said. Last year, the monthly export fluctuated according to
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Institute said it has developed a cycloidal speed reducer with improved efficiency for physically challenged people.The improved cycloid reducer has widened potential applications for electric wheelchairs and wearable medical robots used by disabled people, older
3billion, a biotechnology company that makes a genome-based diagnosis on rare diseases using artificial intelligence, has developed a new deep-learning model, which detects more genetic mutations with twice higher probability than the existing model.3billion announced Wednesday that their research r