Highlights

Healthier, diabetic-friendly bread

Healthier, diabetic-friendly bread

March 28, 2016

28 Mar 2016 NUS food scientists have shown that fortifying bread with anthocyanin-rich extract slows down its digestion rate and…

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International trade damages tropical nature

International trade damages tropical nature

March 24, 2016

24 Mar 2016 NUS scientists reported that international trade causes large net economic losses in tropical countries through the destruction…

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Eucheuma-based healthy beverages

Eucheuma-based healthy beverages

March 21, 2016

21 Mar 2016 NUS food scientists develop the eucheuma-based packaged beverages with no added sugar and preservatives with a local…

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Alternative strategy to overcoming drug resistance

Alternative strategy to overcoming drug resistance

March 17, 2016

17 Mar 2016 NUS scientists discover new organoruthenium anticancer complexes able to overcome multidrug resistance (MDR) by inducing alternative modes…

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A new frog species

A new frog species

March 14, 2016

14 Mar 2016 Researchers in NUS engage with citizens in India to describe the new species of frog as Microhyla…

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Topological insulators can be used as plasmonics materials

Topological insulators can be used as plasmonics materials

March 11, 2016

11 Mar 2016 Scientists in NUS discovered visible surface plasmon modes in Bi2Te3 topological insulator nanoplates and obtained real space…

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New method to quantify undetected extinctions

New method to quantify undetected extinctions

March 08, 2016

8 Mar 2016 NUS scientists invent new method and are planning to apply it to estimate undetected extinction in a…

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Breathing in treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)

Breathing in treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)

March 04, 2016

4 Mar 2016 Researchers from NUS and the A*STAR designed a friendly inhalation treatment for a rare but serious condition.Researchers…

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Surviving spins in two dimensions

Surviving spins in two dimensions

February 29, 2016

29 Feb 2016 NUS scientists have established the mechanisms for spin motion in molybdenum disulfide, an emerging two-dimensional (2D) material.An…

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Tapping nature’s medicine cabinet to develop anticoagulant drug

Tapping nature’s medicine cabinet to develop anticoagulant drug

February 25, 2016

25 Feb 2016 NUS scientists are studying how to stop blood from clotting while not causing uncontrollable bleeding at similar…

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A semiconductor nanoparticle liquid laser

A semiconductor nanoparticle liquid laser

February 23, 2016

23 Feb 2016 Scientists in NUS have developed a very low threshold, multi-photon pumped laser based on a solution of…

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mediated by protein dynamics and interaction with membranes

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mediated by protein dynamics and interaction with membranes

February 15, 2016

15 Feb 2016 NUS scientists discovered that the dynamics of an “insoluble” protein and its interaction with membranes hold clues…

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