15-Sep-17 Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten has acquired a 10% stake in mattress maker Airweave for USD11 mn. It hopes to use Airweave's customer sleep data to develop products and services bespoke to the health needs of individual customers. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

15-Aug-17 Singapore healthcare bioanalytics firm Invitrocue and A*Star's Genome Institute have opened a joint laboratory to conduct research on personalised medicine for cancer treatment. So far, 300 patients have used the service, which costs from SGD50-200 (USD37-147). [image: Singapore General Hospital]

09-Aug-17 New Horizon Health, a Chinese precision health start-up focused on developing early-stage cancer screening technologies, has raised USD20 mn in a funding round from companies such as Qiming Venture, Legend Capital, SoftBank China and others. [image: China Money Network]

03-Jul-17 Japan's Konica Minolta plans to acquire Ambry Genetics of the US, which uses genetic data to screen for cancer, in an acquisition expected to cost JPY100 bn (USD889 mn), the office equipment maker's most expensive acquisition ever. [image: Konica Minolta]

22-Jun-17 India's Global Gene Corp wants data from people in under-represented regions to be more accurately represented in global DNA databases and it is starting with South Asia, where DNA sequences make up only 0.2% of global genetic databases. [image: Getty Images]