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The Sarcopenia Definition Race: The Endpoint Is the Asset

In a category with no approvable indication anywhere in the world, whoever writes the endpoint definition controls who is eligible for a trial, what counts...

August 12, 2026 | Analysis

Reading the Register: What Japan's Provision Plans Actually Say

A register, not an approval list Start with the thing that is most often got wrong, including by people who should know better. The Act on the Safety of ...

August 10, 2026 | Analysis

9 AI Drug Discovery Platforms Built in Asia-Pacific, and What They Have Actually Shipped

For most of the past decade, the only honest answer to the question of whether AI drug discovery works in Asia-Pacific was that nobody could yet know. The ...

August 04, 2026 | Analysis

12 Funding Rounds That Show Where APAC Biotech Capital Is Going

There is a version of this story that lists twelve press releases and calls it analysis. This is not that story. Every round below has already been announc...

July 30, 2026 | News

Stopped: The Six-Year Cost of Trials That Never Reached the Finish Line

One infusion, no programme A gene therapy is a one-way door. The vector goes in once, it cannot be taken out, and with current adeno-associated virus tech...

July 28, 2026 | Analysis

7 Countries Competing to Be the Region’s Next Biomanufacturing Hub

A siting decision for a biomanufacturing facility is one of the most expensive commitments a company makes, and it is made against a fifteen to twenty year...

July 27, 2026 | Analysis

Discount or Validation? Western Pharma’s Appetite for Chinese Assets

There is a number that has stopped being a niche statistic for Asia-watchers and started reshaping where the global drug industry shops. The average upfron...

July 24, 2026 | Analysis

Top 26 Companies Leading Sustainable Biopharma Practices in 2026

Sustainability has stopped being a side conversation in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2026 it sits at the centre of how the sector defines leadership. Th...

July 23, 2026 | Analysis

The Bioreactors Are Ours. The Consumables Are Not.

A new biologics plant is one of the easier things in medicine to photograph. The bioreactors are large and gleaming, the capacity figures are big and round...

July 22, 2026 | Analysis

Two Chairs, 11,000 Kilometres Apart: The Human Cost of Asia’s Plasma Dependence

REPORTAGE / PLASMA SUPPLY THE CHAIR The chair reclines. That is the first thing you notice, walking into a plasma centre in a strip mall on...

July 17, 2026 | Analysis

China Plus One: Slogan, Strategy, or Capacity APAC Does Not Have?

THE RESHUFFLE · ANALYSIS On a Monday in June 2026, one line in the United States Federal Register did what two year...

July 16, 2026 | Analysis

The Technology Is Ready. Are APAC’s Regulators?

In a process-development suite in Singapore, or Hyderabad, or Songdo, a perfusion bioreactor can now run for weeks, its output feeding straight into a conn...

July 15, 2026 | Regulatory

Can APAC Biomanufacturing Decarbonise Without Pricing Itself Out?

Scope 3 clauses, single-use plastic, water and energy intensity: the “green premium” has become the defining question for the CDMOs that built ...

July 14, 2026 | Analysis

The Algorithm on the GMP Floor: AI Promises a Smarter Plant. Regulators Demand the Audit Trail.

A control room that thinks it knows what happens next Walk the mezzanine above a modern biologics suite in Singapore, Songdo or Hyderabad and the change i...

July 13, 2026 | Analysis

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