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12 December, 2024
The absence of a robust series of funding escalators – from Series A to C, leading to trade sales or IPOs – risks producing numerous start-ups with innovative ideas but lacking commercially viable products. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Weakest link in Hong Kong’s tech ecosystem? Scale-up funding

With venture capital and IPO growth weak globally, start-ups should aggressively seek international commercialisation, leverage marketing strategies and connect with power players overseas.

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New medical drugs

Novel drug awaits Hong Kong diabetics suffering from debilitating eye disease

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Biomedicine: Companies

Hong Kong residents reticent to get latest Covid-19 jab, Moderna survey finds

Biomedicine: Companies

China welcomes new US$1 billion Sanofi project in Beijing

Sanofi’s latest capital outlay in China will cover the development of a new insulin plant in the nation’s capital.

Sanofi said the new plant in Beijing will be its fourth such facility on the mainland. Photo: Shutterstock
Biomedicine: Companies

Hong Kong start-up eyes global pest control market with scent-based products

Plasticvore is a two-year old biotech start-up offering alternative, humane solutions to controlling and eliminating pests, founder says.

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SCMP Highlights

Recap | ‘Promising’ steps to HIV vaccine, Trump tariffs threaten profits: 5 biotech stories

Discover breakthroughs in the biotech world, from a potential HIV cure to China’s booming drug market and innovative coronavirus treatments, in some of our latest stories.

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China society

China’s netizens warned that shutting down scientists’ views may hobble progress

Renowned scientists such as physicist He Zuoxiu and Fields Medal winner Yau Shing-Tung have been subjected to online attacks.

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“Fandom culture is worryingly penetrating into discussions of science topics” and could hurt China’s technology sector, editorial in state-affiliated media outlet has warned. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong

Vaccine shows promise in curing HIV, Hong Kong start-up says

‘We may be on the brink of a breakthrough,’ Dr Edward Leong, advisory board chairman of Immuno Cure says.

Biomedicine: Companies

Germany’s BioNTech buys Biotheus in US$800 million push into cancer drugs

BioNTech says deal will support its push into the development of cancer drugs using its proven mRNA technology.

Science

Opinion | Why a new approach to diabetes treatment is desperately needed

Current widely used treatment approaches are not fit for task as they ignore the idiosyncrasies in diabetes that can arise in each patient.

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A diabetes patient injecting insulin in their abdomen. The International Diabetes Foundation estimates almost 540 million adults had diabetes in 2020. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

Will Chinese scientists make or break the uprising in academic publishing?

A new publishing model is causing ructions in academia, and it could be China who decides the winner.

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A battle is under way in the acedemic publishing world after a journal database delisted a well-known life sciences journal over its new publishing model. Photo: Shutterstock
Health in China

Chinese pharmaceutical companies look abroad for growth markets

Shanghai Henlius struck a deal in Saudi Arabia while XtalPi signed a partnership with Sinar Mas Multiartha in Indonesia.

Science

China’s ‘bat lady’ Shi Zhengli opens path for new coronavirus research

Shi and a team of Chinese, US and Swiss researchers have developed a customised virus receptor that could pave way for new treatments.

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Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong health-tech start-ups create digital wearables for seniors

With a regulatory approach that expands the market for such devices to the Greater Bay Area, local companies see opportunity for growth.

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Senior Hongkongers exercise at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. Photo: Dickson Lee
Biomedicine: Companies

Hong Kong health tech: private-public alliance advances male HPV testing

Neo-Health Group says its device, developed with a government-backed research institute, will also help test for skin infections and cancers.

The Nanoswab device viewed through an optical microscope. Photo: Handout
Cancer

CK Life’s Yuen banks on Big Pharma experience to boost new drug success

Lance Yuen spent two decades at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Bayer in the region before becoming the CEO at CK Life Sciences last month.

Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize winners recognised for ‘groundbreaking’ microRNA discovery

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Health & Fitness

Ultrasound cancer treatment, supported by Li Ka-shing, gains traction in Asia

Focused ultrasound, backed by Li Ka-shing, is emerging as a non-invasive, commercially viable cancer treatment, attracting significant investments.

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Neal Kassell, a neurosurgeon, is the founder and chairman of US-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation. Photo: Sun Yeung
Science

Opinion | Can the world come together to share benefits of genetic data?

Digital sequence information holds great promise, but disagreements on definitions and national interests are slowing progress.

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Wellness

The scientists behind the development of obesity drugs like Ozempic

Developed to treat diabetes, drugs like Ozempic now help fight obesity. Scientists newly honoured for working on them recall their findings.

Science

China’s strides in academic research seen to narrow US lead in medical science

Growing momentum in research sets China up as a formidable player in future of global healthcare, according to scientific publishers.

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China’s overall research output is slowly overtaking the United States, especially in the field of medicine, according to academic publishers. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

China-born scientist Chen Zhijian wins ‘America’s Nobel’ for medical research

Texas-based Chen wins Albert Lasker Award for discovery of enzyme cGAS, holding out ‘promise for fighting infectious diseases and cancer’.

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Chen Zhijian is the sixth scientist of Chinese origin to receive a Lasker Award, and the second Chinese recipient in the basic research category. Photo: Handout
Science

China wants humans to live healthier, longer by sequencing 1% of world’s population

The proposed Human Genome Project II could set in motion a ‘paradigm shift’ toward more precise public health, and a global research alliance.

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Science

Chinese diet shift to more meat to cost US$14 billion in health spending: study

Scientists say amid China’s healthcare system development and reform, ‘transitioning to a plant-based diet will be crucial’.

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Ageing society

Diabetes drug may dramatically delay effect of ageing on human brain: study

Test animal tissue showed slowed biological ageing and brains showed improved cognitive function after metformin doses, team wrote in Cell.

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A Chinese study published in Cell journal is the first to thoroughly investigate the role of metformin in mitigating the ageing process in primates. A further study in collaboration with Merck is expected to study metformin and ageing in older men. Photo: EPA-EFE
Science

Laughter could be the best medicine for dry eye disease: study

In a study into dry eye disease, Chinese and British researchers find that laughter therapy was as effective as eye drops.

A study has found that laughter could be as effective as eye drops for sufferers of dry eye disease. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

China’s Wuhan institute creates nasal Covid-19 vaccine for ‘future pandemics’

‘Broad spectrum’ nanovaccine can target multiple coronaviruses, says team at institute once in spotlight over Covid lab leak theory.

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Science

New nano-plant drug created for deadliest brain cancer by China-US team

A new nanoparticle treatment is showing promise for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer.

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