Bio Special Special Report

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 09, 2026 | Analysis

APAC's Peptide-Capacity Gamble

For most of pharmaceutical history, the hard part was finding a molecule that worked. The GLP-1 class inverted that logic. The science arrived first &mdash...

 July 09, 2026 | Analysis

Singapore Updates Wegovy Label to Include Higher-Dose Semaglutide Data Showing Up to 25% Weight Loss

Up to one in three participants on semaglutide 7.2 mg achieved at least 25% weight loss over 72 weeks Mean weight loss with semaglutide 7.2 mg reached 2...

 July 09, 2026 | News

After the Rush: APAC's mRNA and Vaccine Capacity Hangover

In June 2022,  South Korea had something it had wanted for two years: a COVID-19 vaccine of its own. SKYCovione, developed by SK bioscience with the U...

 July 08, 2026 | Analysis

The Biosimilar Race: Factory to the World — or Stuck in the Copycat Economy?

In Songdo and Bengaluru, the numbers finally look like the ones the region was promised a decade ago. Celltrion closed 2025 with revenue above ₩4 trillio...

 July 07, 2026 | Analysis

The Vein-to-Vein Problem: Can APAC's Cold Chain Carry Advanced Therapies?

The requirement: a chain that cannot break Key figures −150°C or colder — the temperature floor for most cell and gene therapies; som...

 July 06, 2026 | Analysis

Vectors, Plasmids and the CGT Trap: APAC's Cell and Gene Therapy Ambitions Face an Upstream Bottleneck

THE GATE The choke point nobody puts on the slide Somewhere in the region this quarter, a cell-and-gene developer has everything the pitch deck promised....

 July 03, 2026 | Analysis

Can APAC Build Radioligand Therapy Before the Atoms Decay?

Every dose of radioligand therapy is a countdown. The moment a batch of lutetium-177 leaves the reactor, it begins to fade — roughly half its therape...

 July 02, 2026 | Analysis

The Great Biopharma Reset: 50 Developments That Changed Everything in H1 2026

For three years the biotechnology industry waited for a turn. The first half of 2026 delivered one — and then several more in quick succession. In si...

 June 30, 2026 | Analysis

Beyond the Obvious Giant: Where APAC's Clinical Trials Go Next

For most of the last decade, the strategic case for running Asia-Pacific clinical trials could be summarised in a single word: China. A vast, treatment-n...

 June 29, 2026 | Analysis

The Frontier That Won’t Quite Arrive

Ask the region’s clinical-operations leaders whether decentralised and hybrid trials are the future, and the answer is almost unanimous. Surveys keep...

 June 26, 2026 | Analysis

Metabolon Delivers Landmark Metabolomics Dataset to Advance Rare Disease Research with Genomics England

Metabolon, Inc., the global leader in metabolomics solutions advancing life science research, diagnostics, therapeutics, and precision medicine, announced ...

 June 26, 2026 | News

Vendor to Co-Innovator — or Bring It In-House? The CDMO Relationship Rewires

For two decades the contract development and manufacturing organisation occupied a comfortable, clearly understood place in the biopharma value chain. The ...

 June 25, 2026 | Analysis

Security at What Cost? APAC and the Great Supply-Chain Reordering

For the better part of two decades, the global pharmaceutical supply chain ran on a simple, unsentimental bargain: make the chemistry where it is cheapest,...

 June 24, 2026 | Analysis


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