Sim Shuzhen

Optogenetics promises to give neuroscience researchers unprecedented insight into the complexity of the brain. Sim Shuzhen traces its development and asks where the technology could take us.

We are living in a digital world, but there is something about film photography that appeals particularly to scientists.

Though sometimes cheesy, acronymns help make complex terms more manageable and memorable. Sim Shuzhen takes us through some of the best examples.

Technological advancements may have saved us once during the Green Revolution, but will they be able to deal with the food challenges of tomorrow? Sim Shuzhen investigates.

Not many biologists are fully at home with bioinformatics, but an understanding of it could make all the difference for fighting disease outbreaks.

Prof. Grätzel discusses how harnessing solar power has the potential to provide more than 6,000 times our current energy consumption.

At the Global Young Scientists Summit 2014, a panel of distinguished scientists discussed how research should be driven by curiosity, not money.

At the Global Young Scientists Summit 2014, Nobel Laureate Harald zur Hausen discusses the link between high consumption of red meat and colorectal cancer.

Researchers have engineered salivary and tear glands and transplanted them successfully into mice.