Tan Eng King – Asian Scientist Magazine

The Gift Of The Gab Is In The Genes

Scientists have identified the genes that contribute to language learning in early childhood.

Sticking To Traditional Diet Helps American Asians Beat Diabetes

Asian Americans are at a greater risk of diabetes than their Caucasian counterparts but they can counteract it by staying on a traditional Asian diet.

Features

How ICTs Can Help Protect Cambodian Laborers

A mobile phone-based quiz is helping Better Factories Cambodia reach out to workers and educate them on their rights.

In the Lab

Budgies: More Body Aware Than Humans

Who are you calling bird brain? It turns out that birds are more precise in navigating their bodies than humans are.

In the Lab

Bottom-Up For Self-Assembled Graphene Ribbons

By exploiting the properties of copper, scientists have developed a way to produce defect-free graphene nanoribbons in a specific configuration.

In the Lab

Attacking Superbugs With New Drug Cocktails

A Singaporean team has discovered new ways to enhance the efficacy of drugs used to treat respiratory infections and antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

World’s First iPS Transplant Performed

A Japanese woman in her seventies has become the world's first person to receive a transplant of iPS-derived cells.

Features

India Caught Between Business And Activists Over GM Crops

Public opposition to GM trials is fueling government indecision, stranding India’s food research in the lab, writes Ranjit Devraj.

Health

China’s Worrying Diabetes Epidemic

Studies show that one in four diabetics worldwide reside in China and half the population is prediabetic, a grave situation that urgently needs to be addressed.

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