Highlights

Enhancing health benefits of coffee with probiotics

Enhancing health benefits of coffee with probiotics

October 20, 2021

NUS food scientists have developed a coffee beverage rich in live probiotics and health-promoting metabolites that enhance gut health and…

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Titanium catalysis enables stereoselective synthesis of C-glycosides and glycopeptides

Titanium catalysis enables stereoselective synthesis of C-glycosides and glycopeptides

October 13, 2021

NUS chemists have conceived a new strategy to synthesize medicinally important C-alkyl and C-alkenyl glycosides through a titanium-catalysed reductive transformation…

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Modelling nonequilibrium nanoscale junctions with steady-state density functional theory (DFT)

Modelling nonequilibrium nanoscale junctions with steady-state density functional theory (DFT)

October 06, 2021

NUS scientists have predicted a new type of nonequilibrium effects that could generally exist in nanoscale electronic devices, and successfully…

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Molecule-mediated surface reconstruction enables giant upconversion luminescence enhancement

Molecule-mediated surface reconstruction enables giant upconversion luminescence enhancement

September 20, 2021

NUS researchers have developed a synthetic method to enhance upconversion luminescence in protein-sized lanthanide-doped nanocrystals by surface reconstruction through molecule…

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Skaters of the high seas

Skaters of the high seas

September 06, 2021

NUS researchers have found that the population histories of three ocean skater species are closely associated with past climatic conditions….

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Novel strategy for identifying biomarkers of synthetic cannabinoids

Novel strategy for identifying biomarkers of synthetic cannabinoids

August 30, 2021

NUS pharmaceutical scientists have developed a strategy to biosynthesize metabolites of a novel synthetic cannabinoid, ADB-BUTINACA, and identify its optimal…

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Stereoselective alkene synthesis with non-precious nickel catalysis

Stereoselective alkene synthesis with non-precious nickel catalysis

August 10, 2021

NUS chemists have developed a new way to access prized tri- and tetrasubstituted alkenes through a nickel-catalysed tandem process involving…

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Integrative approach reduces error cascades in mosquito vector surveillance

Integrative approach reduces error cascades in mosquito vector surveillance

August 05, 2021

NUS biologists demonstrate that standard surveillance methods and traditional identification techniques do not accurately reflect the mosquito community structure across…

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Decipher how light controls stomatal number in plants

Decipher how light controls stomatal number in plants

August 03, 2021

NUS biologists have discovered the mechanism of how light regulates stomatal production on the leaf surface, a process critical for…

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Controllable surface defect engineering on transition-metal trichalcogenide

Controllable surface defect engineering on transition-metal trichalcogenide

July 22, 2021

NUS scientists have developed a method for controllable introduction of two different types of sulphur vacancies into zirconium trisulfide (ZrS3…)

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Edible coating for seabass preservation

Edible coating for seabass preservation

June 28, 2021

NUS food scientists have developed a fish gelatin-based coating containing grape seed extract introduced by the vacuum impregnation process which…

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Lanthanide nanoparticles enable continuous-wave NIR STED microscopy

Lanthanide nanoparticles enable continuous-wave NIR STED microscopy

June 21, 2021

NUS 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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