Highlights
Enhancing health benefits of coffee with probiotics
October 20, 2021NUS food scientists have developed a coffee beverage rich in live probiotics and health-promoting metabolites that enhance gut health and…
Read MoreTitanium catalysis enables stereoselective synthesis of C-glycosides and glycopeptides
October 13, 2021NUS chemists have conceived a new strategy to synthesize medicinally important C-alkyl and C-alkenyl glycosides through a titanium-catalysed reductive transformation…
Read MoreModelling nonequilibrium nanoscale junctions with steady-state density functional theory (DFT)
October 06, 2021NUS scientists have predicted a new type of nonequilibrium effects that could generally exist in nanoscale electronic devices, and successfully…
Read MoreMolecule-mediated surface reconstruction enables giant upconversion luminescence enhancement
September 20, 2021NUS researchers have developed a synthetic method to enhance upconversion luminescence in protein-sized lanthanide-doped nanocrystals by surface reconstruction through molecule…
Read MoreSkaters of the high seas
September 06, 2021NUS researchers have found that the population histories of three ocean skater species are closely associated with past climatic conditions….
Read MoreNovel strategy for identifying biomarkers of synthetic cannabinoids
August 30, 2021NUS pharmaceutical scientists have developed a strategy to biosynthesize metabolites of a novel synthetic cannabinoid, ADB-BUTINACA, and identify its optimal…
Read MoreStereoselective alkene synthesis with non-precious nickel catalysis
August 10, 2021NUS chemists have developed a new way to access prized tri- and tetrasubstituted alkenes through a nickel-catalysed tandem process involving…
Read MoreIntegrative approach reduces error cascades in mosquito vector surveillance
August 05, 2021NUS biologists demonstrate that standard surveillance methods and traditional identification techniques do not accurately reflect the mosquito community structure across…
Read MoreDecipher how light controls stomatal number in plants
August 03, 2021NUS biologists have discovered the mechanism of how light regulates stomatal production on the leaf surface, a process critical for…
Read MoreControllable surface defect engineering on transition-metal trichalcogenide
July 22, 2021NUS scientists have developed a method for controllable introduction of two different types of sulphur vacancies into zirconium trisulfide (ZrS3…)
Read MoreEdible coating for seabass preservation
June 28, 2021NUS food scientists have developed a fish gelatin-based coating containing grape seed extract introduced by the vacuum impregnation process which…
Read MoreLanthanide nanoparticles enable continuous-wave NIR STED microscopy
June 21, 2021NUS researchers have developed a new generation of near infra-red (NIR)-emitting nanoprobes for super-resolution imaging in deep tissues. These nanoprobes…
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