SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spend 2.93 trillion won (US$2.61 billion) this year to develop new bio technology, as part of efforts to become the leading industrial hub, the government said Monday The 2019 biotech support budget, which received a 2.9 percent increase from a year earlier, aims to develop critical [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s science ministry said Thursday that it will spend 315.7 billion won (US$273.7 million) this year to develop new bio technology, as part of efforts to become a global biotech and medical industry hub. The 2017 budget, a 31.4 percent jump from a year earlier, is aimed at [...]
Singapore, Mar 20, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have developed a method to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) from a single drop of finger-pricked blood. The method also enables donors to collect their own blood samples, which they can then send to a laboratory for [...]