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The Unassuming Revolutionary

Asian Scientist Magazine catches up with the inventor of optogenetics and CRISPR gene editing, Zhang Feng.

10 Unsolved Questions In Neuroscience

The mind still holds many mysteries today. Here, we uncover what we know about ten of them.

What Chocolate Footsteps Reveal About The Brain

Apart from having a fascinating perspective of our everyday experience, people with synesthesia could also teach us about how our senses work in the first place.

Betting Big On The Brain

Professor Nancy Ip blends the latest technologies with the ancient wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine, all in the name of solving challenges such as Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders.

Can You ‘Catch’ Alzheimer’s?

As the list of diseases caused by prions continues to grow, should we be worried that common neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s could be contagious?

Editor’s Note – January 2016 Print Magazine

Asian Scientist is proud to present the Asian Scientist 100, the first ever listing of scientists in Asia who have made an impact in the past year, in the January 2016 print magazine!

Scientific Success Can Happen Anywhere, Says Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia At GYSS 2016

Scientific success can happen anywhere and to anyone, says Carlo Rubbia, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Mathematics Is In Everything, Says Leslie Lamport At GYSS@one-north 2016

Mathematics is in everything around us, says eminent computer scientist and Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport.

The (Science Fiction) Force Awakens In My Son

A list of nostalgia-inducing science fiction movies to watch with your kids. Someone get the popcorn!