Lu Ke – Asian Scientist Magazine

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A study shows that immune cells actively maintain a healthy gut microbiota, challenging the assumption that gut immunity is purely reactive.

A genetic analysis reveals that a commonly caught eel-tailed catfish is actually a distinct new species.

Scientists have developed a cost-effective water disinfection device that can run safely on low-input voltage batteries.

Plastic pollution is widespread throughout the world's oceans, but fragments smaller than one millimeter are mysteriously missing.

The genome of the Asian liver fluke, a parasite that can cause bile duct cancer and infects millions in Asia, has been sequenced.

A study shows that gene editing technology, which could help treat genetic diseases, does not introduce new mutations to cells.

Scientists are one step closer to understanding how complex organs can be regenerated, thanks to a study on head formation in frogs.

Singaporean scientists can now compete for grants, postdoctoral fellowships and career development awards under HFSP funding programs.

Scientists have found that the protein fibrils which enhance the infective ability of HIV are toxic to neuronal cells even when disaggregated.