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Community Curated Database For LncRNA

A wiki-style database hopes to serve as an online encyclopedia of lncRNA by and for the scientific community.

Can Science Solve Poverty?

Science may never completely solve the problem of poverty, but it will not be because it did not try, writes Crispin Maslog.

In the Lab

Efficiently Editing Dad’s Genetic Mutations

By targeting sperm stem cells rather than zygotes, researchers have developed a gene editing method to obtain healthy offspring at 100 percent efficiency.

In the Lab

Splitting Hydrogen With Nanowire Mesh

Taking a leaf out of the paper industry, researchers have developed a nanotechnology-based system that uses light to split water.

Columns

Fancy A Game Of Conference Bingo?

Conferences are an important way of transmitting the latest scientific information, but they can be fun too. Try checking these off at your next conference!

Pharma

BASF Breaks Ground On New Innovation Campus In India

As part of their aim to have 25 percent of their R&D employees located in Asia-Pacific by 2020, BASF is building an Innovation Campus in Navi Mumbai, India.

Columns

You Are Not Just What You Eat

To what extent can we blame people for being obese and what are the other factors in play? Our columnist Annabel Tan finds out.

Features

Cultivating EU-ASEAN Science Collaboration

EU and ASEAN leaders sought ways to improve research mobility between the two regions at recent conferences held in Singapore and Bangkok.

Features

South Asia’s Quest For More Livable Cities

By deploying new urban transport technologies, South Asian governments can bring relief to over a billion people, says Nalaka Gunawardene.

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