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Japan’s NCC & Takeda Enter Research Partnership

The collaboration between the National Cancer Center and Takeda is part of a wider academic-industrial effort to develop new medicines.

A team of scientists has described the mutational processes that drive tumor development in 30 of the most common cancer types.

An international group of scientists has identified three genetic regions that predispose Asian women who have never smoked to lung cancer.

Four research groups, including three based in Asia, have independently identified a novel fusion gene found in a subpopulation of lung tumors.

10 Years Of Celebrating Asia’s Researchers

Every year, Asian Scientist Magazine publishes Asian Scientist 100, a carefully curated list of the best and brightest researchers and leaders in SETM in Asia. This year we complete a decade of doing so.
Learning From Environmental Defenders

Drawing on traditional knowledge systems, environmental researchers and policymakers in Asia are working with indigenous communities to design better strategies for environmental conservation.
The Equalizers

Across Asia, people with disabilities are breaking physical and social barriers to STEM fields, opening the way for others.