Within a short span of 2 years, 4 major biomedical companies announced their commercial-scale biologics manufacturing investments in Singapore. These investments include, GlaxoSmithKline’s Biologics’ vaccine plant, Lonza’s two mammalian cell culture facilities, Novartis cell culture plant and Genentech microbial facility.
So what made these companies come to Singapore?
Firstly, it was due to the country’s heavy investments [...]

In 2009, we will see the opening of Schering-Plough Translational Medicine Research Centre (TMRC) in Singapore. The TMRC is a branch of the Schering-Plough Research Institute (SPRI) and it will consist of 2 planned components:

Translational Research Lab (TRL) – scheduled to open in February, 2009

Translational Medicine Unit (TMU) – will run about 20-30 clinical [...]

What happen when a novel discovery has been made? What happen when an ingenious theory has been proposed?
Enormous amount of research can be done in laboratories each day. But, do they continue to stay on top of laboratory benches, in the brilliant minds, or simply go unnoticed? What does it mean to the public at [...]

Precision engineering is the sub discipline of mechanical, electrical, optical, production and material science engineering (Wikipedia, 2008, Eionet, 2008). The field is concerned with designing machines, fixtures and other structures that have exceptionally high tolerances, are reproducible and remains stable with time (Wikipedia, 2008).

The primary pillar of Singapore’s manufacturing sector is its precision engineering (PE) [...]