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A data-sharing scheme utilizing an encryption manager shows the way towards low-cost, flexible and secure cloud storage services

A sensor developed at A*STAR can detect bladder cancer cells and track tumor progression

Researchers at KAIST have published a detailed protocol for synthetic sRNA-based gene expression control that will prove useful for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology studies.  

Scientists plan experiments to increase virulence of Influenza A (H7N9) and induce drug resistance, under strict laboratory controls and safety measures to find out what makes the virus potentially lethal in humans, and how to stop its possible spread.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Young-Tae Chang from National University of Singapore and Prof. Yoon-Kyoung Cho from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea, developed a fluorescent caffeine detector and a detection kit that lights up like a traffic light when caffeine is present in various drinks and solutions.

Food researchers at Universiti Teknologi Mara develop new process to make healthy fruit based snacks

Research team developing a more accurate way to monitor and predict weather changes.

For the first time anywhere, electric buses provide public transportation services and are recharged right from the road.

A natural genetic variant that changes the growth angle of rice plant roots allows the plants to maintain high yield under drought conditions, reports an article published online this week in Nature Genetics.

A method that is used to track the fate of a single stem cell within mouse lung tissue is reported in a study published online this week in Nature Nanotechnology. The method may offer insights into the factors that determine the acceptance of transplanted stem cells, and their ability to regenerate within a host.

A new drug capable of inhibiting growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reported this week in Nature Medicine. The findings may improve therapeutic options for the treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis (TB).

By exploiting the full computational power of the Japanese supercomputer, K Computer, researchers from the RIKEN HPCI Program for Computational Life Sciences, the Okinawa Institute of Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany have carried out the largest general neuronal network simulation to date.

Multi-armed polymers with dual fluorescent and magnetic imaging capabilities boost the resolution of cancer detection tools

Sensitive measurements of lubricant transfer in hard disk drives will aid the design of more stable and compact components

Experiments and numerical simulations show that miniaturized ultra-small platinum cylinders weaken when their constituents are reduced in number

A superglue polymerisation strategy that fortifies encapsulated ‘liquid marble’ water droplets also strengthens their market potential

The Singapore White Spaces Pilot Group takes the nation’s capability in ‘white space’ wireless connectivity to a new level

RIKEN is pleased to announce the launch of a pilot study to assess the safety and feasibility of the transplantation of autologous induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell sheets in patients with exudative (wet-type) age-related macular degeneration

Ph.D candidate Songyi Chae from the School of Design and Human Engineering at UNIST, majoring in Affective and Human Factors Engineering, was awarded the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. She will receive a $3500 scholarship and has been invited to visit a Google office in Sydney, Australia for a networking retreat on September 11, 2013.

Utilizing existing features on smartphones, the MagPen provides users with a compatible and simple input tool regardless of the type of phones they are using.

With the use of sophisticated mathematical modelling techniques, a mathematician at PolyU and his co-researchers have completed a study that explains the phenomenon of multiple waves of influenza pandemic in the last century.

UNIST researchers have announced a simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs), which could be used in dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel cells The work published in Scientific Reports today could be a step towards replacing conventional platinum (Pt)-based catalysts for energy conversion.

Joint Labs in Precision Motion Systems and Industrial Robotics are Geared towards High Value Manufacturing

Opens the Way to Research on Spin Properties and Device Applications of Graphene and Other 2-Dimensional Materials

Professor Hoon Lee offers solutions for Korean tourism

UNIST researchers report considerable improvement in device performance of polymer-based optoelectronic devices. Published in Nature Photonics today, the new plasmonic material, can be applied to both polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) and polymer solar cells (PSCs), with world-record high performance, through a simple and cheap process.

Researchers have developed nano-adhesive plasters that can easily be applied to lacerated vessel walls with no adhesive, and succeeded in arresting massive bleeding from the inferior vena cava in rabbits.

A new computational scheme enables more stable simulations of shockwaves in fluids and may be scalable for large engineering designs

A technique that reduces the time to simulate the operation of active optical devices aids the design of nanoscale lasers

Tiny nanoribbons of carbon could be used to make a magnetic field sensor for novel electronic devices