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Singaporean Postgrads Snag US$100,000 In Sustainability Prizes
Ten young researchers have been awarded the 2015 WFF PhD prize for their work on environment and sustainability issues.
Substrate Stiffness Increases Cytoskeletal Organization
Cells adapt to stiff substrates by modifying their cytoskeleton, organizing actin filaments into a single direction.
A Clarion Call To Women Scientists To Share Their Stories
Dr. Debalina Dutta of the National University of Singapore is undertaking an ambitious project to study the careers of 100 women scientists in Singapore.
The Law Professor Blogger
SMU Assistant Professor Yip Man co-founded the Singapore Law Blog in 2014 to disseminate legal knowledge to the general public.
Japan & Singapore Jostle For Top Uni Rankings
East Asian universities dominate both the Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds rankings yet again in 2015.
A Charged Partnership: Unlikely Partners In The Antibiotics Arms Race
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. By combining their expertise, a cancer drug delivery researcher and a technology giant might just have come up with a solution to prevent the slide into a post-antibiotic era.
Making Liquids Stay Right Where You Want Them
Additives and micro-contact printing could be used to reduce friction even in microelectromechanical systems, study says.
Samlonella Self-Acidifies To Survive Macrophages’ Acid Attack
The acidic environment of the macrophage vacuole not only fails to kill Salmonella but actually switches on bacterial survival genes.
Why Embryos Die Without GPIs
A study in nematode worms shows that glycosylphosphatidylinositol lipid anchors are essential for membrane stability, particularly during embryogenesis.
