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Food Innovation For The Future – Collaborating For Sustainable Living

September 2, 2020

Artificial intelligence for crops, super-charged nutrient absorption, and lab-grown alternative proteins. What do these industry buzzwords mean for Singapore’s future of food? And has the current pandemic changed anything? We…

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Explainer: Testing The Efficacy Of Protective Face Masks

August 28, 2020

THE BACTERIAL FILTRATION EFFICIENCY (BFE) TEST This test indicates how well a mask filters droplets containing biological agents such as bacteria or viruses. With SARS-CoV-2 thought to be…

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Strengthening Food Security With R&D

August 16, 2020

The current Covid-19 situation has brought the issue of food security into sharper focus. Here’s how A*STAR and the Singapore Food Agency are driving R&D efforts to strengthen the country’s…

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NTU And A*STAR Scientists Develop New Way To Deliver More Drugs Through The Skin

August 6, 2020

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have showed that applying “temporal pressure” to the skin of mice can create a new way…

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Public-Private Collaboration Leads To Finger-prick Antibody Test Kit For COVID-19 That Delivers Results In 15 Minutes

July 29, 2020

A test kit that can accurately identify SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in 15 minutes and employs a lateral flow format, similar to those used in home pregnancy tests, has been co-developed between…

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A Collaboration To Boost Nationwide Mask Production

July 25, 2020

As Singapore presses on in its fight against COVID-19, the use of face masks have become an integral part of daily lives to complement social distancing and personal hygiene practices.…

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Singapore Scientists Develop Advanced Human Liver Organoids

July 17, 2020

A long-term research collaboration between A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully created first-in-class human liver organoids that capture both the functional…

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Why Some Patients Recover Faster From The Side-Effects Of Antibiotic Treatment

July 10, 2020

A team of scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of…

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Technology

SGInnovate Launches Deep Tech For Good Initiative

July 4, 2020

SGInnovate has launched Deep Tech for Good, a new initiative that seeks to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other frontier technologies to improve the human…

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One-Hour Antibody Test Tracks Neutralising Antibodies Of COVID-19

May 19, 2020

Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), a research intensive graduate-entry medical school, GenScript Biotech Corporation (“GenScript”), a leading global biotechnology company, and the Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD) at Singapore’s Agency for Science,…

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