Long Ran – Asian Scientist Magazine

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SMU Assistant Professor Ijlal Naqvi studies Pakistan’s power grid as a lens through which to examine its governance and development.

Researchers are one step closer to long-term space travel with the testing of an electrodeless plasma thruster.

The successful measurement of 110 radioactive nuclei—including 40 that had never been measured before—sheds light on the mysterious r-process.

Researchers have demonstrated that gene editing can be used to re-introduce a fetal form of hemoglobin, thereby treating sickle cell anemia.

More interactive and imaginative mobile apps could help families budget better, researchers say.

Inactivation of the death receptor FAS allows rogue B cells to escape antigen control and drive autoimmunity.

Endosomal transport follows a Lévy walk pattern, the same pattern observed in animals foraging for food.

Students from Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have topped the OECD rankings for mathematics and science.

Self-assembling nanosheets made of amyloid-forming proteins have been used to enhance retrovirus transduction.