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Asia’s Scientific Trailblazers: Patrick Casey

It's been ten years since the launch of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. Professor Patrick Casey shares his thoughts on what the school has achieved and what lies ahead.

7 Must-Read Stories In July 2015

Singaporean stories proved popular in July, making up five of the top seven most read articles.

Made-In-Singapore Cancer Drug Advances To Clinical Trials

ETC-159, a Wnt-targeting anti-cancer drug indicated for colorectal, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, has entered a Phase I clinical trial.

Bayer & Singapore’s EDB To Foster Translational Research

Bayer Healthcare deepens its existing cooperation with Singaporean institutions, announcing five year plan to launch at least three new joint research projects.

GIS & Pryobett To Develop Pyrosequencing For Clinical Diagnostics

The novel pyrosequencing platform can perform real-time sequencing for quicker medical decision-making.

WuXi NextCODE Selected To Run 100,000 Genomes Project

WuXi NextCODE has been appointed to carry out the first phase of an ambitious project to sequence 100,000 genomes in the UK.

MYC: The Link Between Cancer & mRNA Splicing

Although more commonly associated with cancer, the oncoprotein MYC also plays an essential role in alternative splicing.

The Era of Nanorobots: How Technology Is Reinventing Medicine

Biomedical engineers have a new futuristic platform to take cancer head on.

Gaining A Diagnostic Edge In Single-Sample Individuals

A computational framework that converts node data into edge data could help researchers identify causal networks in single-sample patients.