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SMART Launches Fellowship Program For Innovation
The Innovation Fellows Program aims to equip researchers with the skills needed to launch careers in entrepreneurship.
Hacking Is Good For Health
MIT Hacking Medicine@SG 2015 saw healthcare professionals, business people and programmers all coming together to solve the challenge of aging in place.
Calling All Hackers: MIT Hacking Medicine@SG Now Open
Whether you're a student, programmer, clinician, designer or engineer, MIT Hacking Medicine@SG wants you and your ideas!
Trying Not to Go Viral
Infectious diseases such as dengue and influenza continue to plague the world despite our best efforts to develop vaccines and drugs. Sim Shuzhen takes stock of how scientists are faring in the fight against seemingly indomitable foes.
Announcing Asia’s Premier Science Writing Competition
Science Centre Singapore and Asian Scientist Magazine have launched a competition to honor the best science writers in Asia.
India’s Swine Flu Virus Potentially More Virulent
The current strain of influenza circulating in India could be more virulent than the 2009 North American strain, highlighting the need for greater surveillance.
Targeting Malaria’s Achilles’ Heel, Hemozoin
A waste product from the malaria parasite provides researchers with an elegant alternative to conventional diagnosis methods.
Tracking Environmental Lead Levels With Coral
In the absence of monitoring data, scientists have turned to corals to determine the level of lead circulating in the Indian Ocean.
Scientists Turn Stem Cells Into Liver And Pancreas Precursor Cells
Scientists have developed a method of turning human stem cells into a cell type that gives rise to organs including the liver and pancreas.
