Highlights

Filling in the “GAP” in cell (mis)communications

Filling in the “GAP” in cell (mis)communications

December 20, 2017

20 Dec 2017. NUS biologists have identified a crucial protein that commands a key communications hub which determines cell growth….

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Why corals do not always pass on symbionts to their offspring

Why corals do not always pass on symbionts to their offspring

December 14, 2017

14 Dec 2017. NUS ecologist has discovered why, paradoxically, corals do not always receive symbiotic algae from their parents even…

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New radiobiology beamline at CIBA

New radiobiology beamline at CIBA

December 11, 2017

11 Dec 2017. NUS physicists in collaboration with clinicians from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) are developing a new beamline to…

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Unlocking the power of web text data

Unlocking the power of web text data

December 06, 2017

6 Dec 2017. NUS statisticians have developed the Regularised Text Logistic (RTL) regression model to extract informative word features from digital…

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Cell-derived drug delivery systems

Cell-derived drug delivery systems

November 30, 2017

30 Nov 2017. NUS pharmaceutical scientists have developed a cost-effective method to produce cell-derived nanovesicles (CDNs) for bio-inspired drug delivery…

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Soy alcoholic beverage: The next in-thing

Soy alcoholic beverage: The next in-thing

November 27, 2017

27 Nov 2017. NUS food scientists have produced an alcoholic beverage from tofu whey, a waste product from the food…

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Artificial photosynthesis to produce ethylene

Artificial photosynthesis to produce ethylene

November 24, 2017

24 Nov 2017. NUS chemists have developed a prototype device to produce ethylene from carbon dioxide and water using natural sunlight. The use…

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Metal hydrides with improved stability in water

Metal hydrides with improved stability in water

November 20, 2017

20 Nov 2017. NUS chemists have discovered new reaction pathways using “acidic” metal hydrides to access industrially important chemical complexes….

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Fluorescent probes to study cellular activity

Fluorescent probes to study cellular activity

November 07, 2017

7 Nov 2017. NUS chemists have recently developed selective probes for cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2) to determine enzyme levels and activity….

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More than meets the eye

More than meets the eye

November 03, 2017

3 Nov 2017. NUS physicists have discovered that gold nanoparticles can enhance light emissions from tungsten disulphide (WS2) flakes and reveal…

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Okara: Biotransformed and back in action

Okara: Biotransformed and back in action

October 26, 2017

26 Oct 2017. NUS food scientists have given okara, a soybean byproduct, a nutritional and flavour makeover using various enzymes…

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Green functionalisation of carbon-hydrogen bonds

Green functionalisation of carbon-hydrogen bonds

October 20, 2017

20 Oct 2017.  NUS chemists have developed a light enhanced, nickel catalysed method for carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bond functionalisation in organic…

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