Chen Wen – Asian Scientist Magazine

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

Scientists have created a comprehensive catalog of the changes in RNA as stem cells commit to different blood cell lineages.

A drop of PVA converts oxidation-prone copper nanowires into a robust and flexible conductive material.

The National Cheng Kung University and Fujitsu will develop a cloud computing platform for big data analysis in agriculture and genomics research.

The use of silver nanoparticles can increase the sensitivity of electron energy loss spectroscopy twenty-fold.

Study reveals immune cells that are critical to combating the malaria parasite in early stages of infection.

Only 22 scientists from South-East Asia were named among the 3,000 Most Influential Scientific Minds, almost two-thirds hailing from Singapore.

More commonly applied to image reconstruction, scientists have now used ghost imaging to make data storage and transmission more secure.

A sting by the journal Science has exposed the poor quality of peer review in many open-access journals.