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Addicted To Your Phone? There’s An App for That
Researchers have developed an app to help users restrict their mobile phone usage with the help of peer pressure.
Blue Light Could Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
A combination of blue LED light and light-activated porphyrin has been shown to reduce symptoms of an Alzheimer's-like disease in fruit flies.
Nano-Fasteners Make Fuel Cells A Snap
Scientists have used nanofabricated pillars to make the bond between electrodes and membranes in fuel cells five times stronger.
Teasing Out Protein Folding With Tiny Tweezers
Scientists were able to observe the folding and unfolding of a single membrane protein using magnetic tweezers.
Keeping The Circadian Clock Stable, Whatever The Temperature
Scientists have proposed a phosphoswitch mechanism to explain the stability of the key circadian protein PER2 in the face of fluctuating temperatures.
Flick The Switch For Bacteria-Made Biofuels
Using in silico modeling and simulation, scientists have engineered a more efficient enzyme for the production of n-butanol in bacteria.
Singapore Leads The Asian Pack For QS’ 2015/2016 Ranking
The 2015/2016 Top Universities Ranking from Quacquarelli Symonds Company placed NUS and NTU at 12th and 13th, respectively.
Precise, Reversible Control Of Calcium Flux
By combining optogenetics with the Ca2+ sensor STIM1, scientists now have unprecedented control over Ca2+ influx into a cell in vitro and in vivo.
Lee Jeong Ho Wins 2015 Pediatric Epilepsies Research Award
Professor Lee Jeong Ho has won the CURE's 2015 Pediatric Epilepsies Research Award for his outstanding research in the field of intractable epilepsy.
