Can Li – Asian Scientist Magazine

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Rather than foreign transmission or the concomitant rise of HIV, tuberculosis rates in Singapore appear to be driven by an aging population.

Peking University's Zong Chuanming has become the first mathematician working in China to win the Levi L. Conant Prize.

Using DNA from extinct giant marsupials, scientists have shown that the banded hare-wallaby is closer to kangaroos than was previously thought.

Using chlorhexidine to clean the umbilical cord could reduce infant death rates by 12 percent, study says.

As currently practiced, salamander farming techniques harm the wild population by spreading diseases, studies say.

More efficient thermoelectric materials could change the way refrigerators and other consumer devices are cooled.

A scale insect family fossilized in amber shows how early insects cared for their offspring.

A partnership with Russian pharmaceutical Nanolek sees Green Cross' biologics enter the rapidly growing Russian market.

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