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26 Sep 2016
Singapore Management University
People are influenced by their family, friends, colleagues and even strangers. This social sway can be measured by science, say researchers from Singapore Management University.
18 Aug 2016
Tohoku University
The Pacific coast of the Tohoku region has been struck by four large tsunamis in just over a century - in 1896, 1933, 1960 and 2011.
30 Mar 2016
Wildlife Conservation Society
Zoonotic disease danger ever-present as protected species are sold in markets as food.
26 Feb 2016
Nagoya University
Scientists based at Nagoya University, Japan, demonstrate the development of behavioral laterality (left-/right-handedness) in a scale-eating cichlid from Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, Perissodus microlepis.
13 Jan 2016
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Academics at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) are calling for the provision of accurate and timely information about air quality after research.
09 Dec 2015
University of Malaya
Researchers in Malaysia are using blowflies to sample mammal DNA and develop a mammal monitoring tool.
08 Nov 2015
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Full genomic sequencing of all 14 species of the Malassezia genus opens up possibility of new treatments for microbially-mediated skin diseases.
17 Sep 2015
Wildlife Conservation Society
Conservation scientists use an enhanced population survey technique that identifies, for the first time, priority forest protection zones irreplaceable for saving the critically endangered Sumatran rhino. The study identifies small and scattered populations that should be consolidated if they are to become viable.
14 Aug 2015
Asia Research News
Researchers in India and France have shown the biomarker role of certain circulatory microRNAs characteristic of ‘Asian Indian phenotype’ in patients with type 2 diabetes.
09 Apr 2015
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
Computational study carried out at Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) revealed energetically balanced reaction coordinate of the SpnF-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction leading to Spinosyn A – tetracyclic natural insecticide produced by the cells of the bacterium Saccharopolyspora spinosa.
16 Mar 2015
University of Malaya
Ms. Kavita S. Subramanian, a PhD student from the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya has been selected in the 2015 Novartis Next Generation Scientist (NGS) program. The NGS program is an intensive 3 month-long internships at the research site in Basel, Switzerland
04 Dec 2014
Asia Research News
- The small non-migratory humpback whale population is genetically distinct, scientists find
- Researchers recommend “Critically Endangered” status for isolated whales
29 May 2014
University of Malaya
The University Malaya led team revealed high levels of previously undiagnosed active TB especially amongst HIV infected prisoners.
26 Mar 2014
University of Malaya
Malaysia, with its multi-ethnic population, is a perfect laboratory for scientists to look at how inherited differences in genes can affect the patient’s responses to medications. These genetic differences can be used to predict whether a medication will be effective for a particular person and to help prevent adverse drug reactions.
21 Mar 2014
Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University
The Yomiuri Techno Forum was founded in 2011, and have provided support for the development of science and technology in Japan. The organization selects three researchers annually who have shown outstanding achievements.
10 Oct 2013
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
An automated assessment of multiple datasets using artificial intelligence accurately diagnoses a common cause of blindness
11 Sep 2013
RIKEN
Japanese researchers have identified a mutation associated with a higher incidence of lung cancer in Japanese women who do not smoke, but better survival in lung cancer patients.
25 Jun 2013
Organization of Frontier Science and Innovation, Kanazawa University
(Kanazawa, Japan, 25 June 2013) Researchers at Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science in Japan have determined how APOBEC proteins mediate hypermutations that inhibit viral replication. They also identify the host factor protein UNG that can repair these mutations.
08 Jan 2013
Asia Research News
Shenzhen, China 8 Jan - Chinese researchers have solved the mystery of the function of sheaths in flowering orchids. In a paper published in PLOS ONE, the team led by Zhong-Jian Liu at the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen and Laiqiang Huang at Tsinghua University found the perch to be essential to orchid reproduction.
20 Sep 2012
Okayama University
(Okayama, Japan, 20 September 2012) - Okayama University researchers demonstrate that cancer stem cells can be produced from normal stem cells for new therapies to combat cancer
27 Aug 2012
Tokyo Institute of Technology
(Tokyo, 27 August 2012) Tokyo Tech ‘s Yoshihiro Miyake and colleagues have developed an innovative, non-invasive therapeutic intervention that may improve the mobility, stability, and quality of life of Parkinson’s disease patients.
18 Jul 2012
Asia Research News
New Pancreatic Cancer Animal Models to aid Novel Therapy Development. Austrianova Singapore announced today that they and their partners have created a mouse model that mimics human pancreatic cancer.
14 Jun 2012
Nature Publishing Group
A large-scale resource for investigating microbial communities throughout the human body and an analysis of these data is reported in two studies in this week’s Nature. Microbial communities that live on and in the human body, collectively known as the ‘microbiome’, are thought to have a critical role in human health and disease.
14 Mar 2012
RIKEN
Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have successfully developed and demonstrated a new experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions. As an alternative to induced pluripotent stem cells, the technique promises to enable faster production of functional cells for use in cancer therapy and other areas.
12 Mar 2012
RIKEN
Mathematical Model Describes the Collaboration of Individual Neurons
06 Feb 2012
RIKEN
Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have developed a robotic workflow for sample preparation on the HeliScope single molecule sequencer which drastically reduces sample preparation time to from 42 days to only 8 days.
06 Feb 2012
RIKEN
A new diagnosis technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) has succeeded in detecting influenza virus infection in only 40 minutes and with one hundred times the sensitivity of conventional methods.
21 Nov 2011
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Why don't woodpeckers injure themselves? Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Beihang University in Beijing have been investigating...
05 Aug 2011
RIKEN
A variant of a newly identified gene is linked to increased risk of developing osteoporosis in Japanese individuals