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‘This is a sustainable and straightforward approach to the problem of antibiotic resistance,’ said Fredrik Almqvist, professor of organic chemistry at Umeå University in Sweden. ‘New antibiotics take a huge…

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One Reason So Many Scientific Studies May Be Wrong

November 25, 2019

There is a replicability crisis in science – unidentified “false positives” are pervading even our top research journals. A false positive is a claim that an effect exists when in…

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A Tale Of ‘Trons’: The Suffix That Tells The Story Of Modern Science

November 18, 2019

If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s, chances are you’ll remember riding the Gravitron at the local fair, or struggling to get past level one of…

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Three Things The Scientific Community Can Do To Filter Sketchy Research

November 12, 2019

Last month, Indonesia’s previous Minister of Research and Technology boasted that in 2019, Indonesia had overtaken Malaysia and Singapore in the number of published academic articles. However, scholars argue this…

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Will We Ever Cure Cancer?

October 31, 2019

We asked three cancer experts – Nobel laureate Professor Harald zur Hausen, Professor Walter Ricciardi and Dr Elisabete Weiderpass – for their thoughts on curing cancer. They all sit on…

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Singapore Completes World’s Largest Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis Of Multi-Ethnic Asian Populations

October 18, 2019

A new genetic databank has been established containing the completed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data of close to 5,000 Singaporeans. Worldwide, WGS is increasingly used in research and healthcare to identify…

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Singapore Scientists Simplify Lithium-Sulfur Battery Production to Meet Future Energy Storage Needs

October 10, 2019

Singapore scientists from NanoBio Lab (NBL) of A*STAR have developed a novel approach to prepare next-generation lithium-sulfur cathodes, which simplifies the typically time-consuming and complicated process for producing them. This…

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Why Newton’s ‘law of universal gravitation’ is not so universal after all

October 7, 2019

Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation is many things – revolutionary, elegant, mysterious – but, as it turns out, one thing we know for sure is that it’s not, well,…

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NUS Researchers Develop New Drug That Fights Cancer With Less Renal Toxicity

October 2, 2019

A team of NUS pharmacists and chemists has developed a new anti-cancer drug that has less toxic effects to the kidneys. The new drug works like a ‘magic bullet’ that is…

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Singapore Scientists Discover New Ways To Treat Liver Cancer

September 26, 2019

Scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), in collaboration with researchers from Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), have identified a protein, Agrin, which could be a…

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