Tang Yew Chung

A new statistical method to forecast fertility rates around the world predicts an unexpected rebound in countries with low fertility rates.

Scientists at BGI have developed a novel whole-genome de novo assembly strategy to map structural variations in individual human genomes.

A new miniature frog species has been discovered in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, an area previously thought to support very few of the amphibians.

Scientists have identified a gene controlled by male sex hormones as being critical for driving liver cancer growth; findings which may explain why liver cancer is more prevalent in men.

The Indonesian government should invest in science, says U.S. science envoy Dr. Bruce Alberts.

Scientists have sequenced and analyzed the potato genome, paving the way for new varieties that are disease-resistant and high-yielding.

Patients with stomach tumors will no longer have to endure an eight-hour long surgery, thanks to a surgical robot designed and built by Singapore researchers.

Scientists in Singapore have used a zebrafish model of hepatocellular carcinoma to uncover new information about how this deadly form of liver cancer arises.

Researchers have found that children learn to read primarily by storing words in the brain and suggest that teaching children to read through phonics may be disadvantageous to them later in life.