Yu Min – Asian Scientist Magazine

More Bacon For Your Buck

Bama mini pigs thrive even on a low protein diet, suggesting that raising indigenous Chinese pigs could reduce feeding costs.

Pharma

ASLAN & Hyundai Pharm Collaborate To Develop Cancer Drug

The two companies will conduct clinical trials to assess varlitinib in the treatment of aggressive bile duct cancer, a disease prevalent in South Korea.

Four Asian Teams Win 2016 Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics

Established by key entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics went to Japanese, Chinese and Canadian research teams working on neutrino oscillation.

In the Lab

Precise, Reversible Control Of Calcium Flux

By combining optogenetics with the Ca²⁺ sensor STIM1, scientists now have unprecedented control over Ca²⁺ influx into a cell in vitro and in vivo.

In the Lab

Add Graphene For Super Sensitive Magnetoresistance Sensing

A graphene-based magnetoresistance sensor has proven to be 200 times more sensitive than commercially available ones made of silicon or indium antimonide.

In the Lab

Solving The REM Sleep Mystery

Using genetic tools to manipulate activity of a specific class of neurons in the brain, neuroscientists have identified the neural circuit involved in REM sleep.

In the Lab

Manipulating Wrinkles To Turn Graphene Into A Semiconductor

Structurally introducing tiny wrinkles to the surface of graphene can turn it into a semiconductor material, scientists say.

In the Lab

How Mosquitoes Locate Veins So Quickly

Two olfactory receptors expressed on a mosquito's stylet are crucial for the accurate and efficient identification of veins for blood sucking.

In the Lab

Double The Quantum Fun

A detailed analysis of the electrical characteristics of a tiny transistor made from two quantum dots could help researchers design devices to manipulate single electrons.

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