Hei Ming Lai – Asian Scientist Magazine

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Strand Life Sciences is collaborating with El Camino Hospital to open a Strand Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine in San Francisco, US.

Companies in Japan and India have started utilizing floating power farms to circumvent the lack of space on land.

Japanese researchers have created a simple and versatile way to build the three-dimensional materials of the future using graphene.

Japanese scientists have used carbon nanotubes to develop a new light source that is hundred times more energy-efficient than LEDs.

Unlike other social animals, leadership in steel-blue sawfly groups is mutually beneficial for both leaders and followers.

Taking vitamin D supplements during pregnancy seems to help prevent babies from getting respiratory infections after birth.

The University of Sydney and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences deepen their ties with a collaborative teaching and research agreement.

A detailed study of the population dynamics of the Crown-of-Thorns starfish could help local fishermen dependent on the coral reefs of Japan.

As seen in the case of Tamiflu, better ways of dealing with conflicts of interest are needed, write Adam Dunn and Florence Bourgeois.