Highlights

New strategy towards stable acene dimers

New strategy towards stable acene dimers

May 07, 2016

07 May 2016 Scientists in NUS developed a new strategy to prepare acene dimers which have extremely high stability in ambient…

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Mechanical barrier to cancer cell proliferation

Mechanical barrier to cancer cell proliferation

May 05, 2016

05 May 2016 Researchers in NUS discovered the differential effect of extracellular matrix (ECM) topographical cues on healthy and cancer…

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Outer membrane stability, and assembly processes

Outer membrane stability, and assembly processes

May 03, 2016

03 May 2016 NUS scientists have identified bacterial osmoporin OmpC as a functional component of the system that maintains outer…

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FoS Wins Young Researcher Award

FoS Wins Young Researcher Award

April 29, 2016

29 Apr 2016 NUS scientist wins the Young Researcher Award for ground-breaking work in molecular electronics. Assoc Prof Christian NIJHUIS’…

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Diffraction before destruction

Diffraction before destruction

April 26, 2016

26 Apr 2016 Scientists in NUS have demonstrated how x-ray lasers could help us image biological macromolecules in water. Nanometer-sized…

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“NUS-AP” deciphers NuSAP function in chromosome

“NUS-AP” deciphers NuSAP function in chromosome

April 22, 2016

22 Apr 2016 Scientists in NUS have uncovered a novel function of Nucleolar spindle-associated protein (NuSAP) in chromosome segregation.Stability and…

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Inhibition of key cardiac enzyme by heart rhythm controlling drug

Inhibition of key cardiac enzyme by heart rhythm controlling drug

April 18, 2016

18 Apr 2016. NUS scientists have discovered for the first time that dronedarone inhibits human cardiac cytochrome P450 2J2 (CYP2J2).Patients…

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Bioinspired nanomotors to power future nanotechnology

Bioinspired nanomotors to power future nanotechnology

April 14, 2016

14 Apr 2016 NUS biophysicists have developed a new generation of nanomotors, which potentially serve as ‘engines’ to power future…

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Querying social network data

Querying social network data

April 11, 2016

11 Apr 2016 Mathematicians in NUS have developed a new theory and technique for database query optimisation.Most computer applications (e.g….

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Water molecules keep nanoparticles apart

Water molecules keep nanoparticles apart

April 07, 2016

07 Apr 2016 An in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) study reveals that water molecules bound to nanoparticle surfaces serve…

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New hope for HBV carriers

New hope for HBV carriers

April 04, 2016

04 Apr 2016 NUS scientists have discovered the mechanisms of mAb mediated HBsAg clean-up, a critical step towards development of…

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Biomimetic engineering of spider silk

Biomimetic engineering of spider silk

March 29, 2016

29 Mar 2016 NUS biologists discovered the mechanistic understanding of silk formation, the spinning process, and property-structure relationship as the…

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