Highlights
Food Science
Cream of the pea crop
16 October 2026Air-trapping proteins from snap pea pods possess natural foaming properties, offering a plant-based alternative for making whipped cream and other fluffy foods.
Plastics
Hot off the plastic press
14 October 2026A 4D printing approach produces shape-changing materials from common thermoplastics by turning heat-induced shrinkage into controlled movement.
Chemistry
Charging on towards green chemicals
12 October 2026A novel electricity-driven process produces valuable nitriles without the toxic cyanide reagents or high energy demands of conventional manufacturing.
Genomics
Calling cancer mutations through the noise
8 October 2026A*STAR researchers develop a deep learning tool to overcome the lack of matched healthy DNA samples when identifying cancer-linked mutations in tumour sequencing data.
Electronics
On the same frequency
6 October 2026A new system from A*STAR researchers allows two types of radio signals used for sensing and communication to complement rather than interfere with each other.
Energy
A rare earth support for green fuels
1 October 2026A novel engineering approach helps cut wastage of a valuable metal component when capturing renewable energy through electrochemical processes.
Infectious Diseases
A second job in antifungal defence
29 September 2026The infection-causing fungus Candida auris repurposes a calcium pump into a drug export system, allowing its survival against a standard treatment.
Medical Imaging
(Motion) matters of the heart
25 September 2026AI-powered analysis of cardiac muscle motion could help identify microvascular obstruction without requiring contrast-enhanced imaging.
Cancer
Mapping cancer’s metabolic landscape
23 September 2026Integrating spatial information to the metabolic readouts of liver cancer samples reveals region-specific markers that conventional bulk profiling methods miss.
BIOPROCESSING
Unearthing nature’s chemical treasure trove
21 September 2026A*STAR researchers developed an AI-powered framework to identify microbial producers of valuable natural products from nature’s vast chemical landscape.
Alternative Meat
Cutting the guesswork in meaty flavour creation
17 September 2026A machine learning framework proposes smarter experiments for optimising meat-like flavours by learning from the aroma and sensory profiles of each round of samples.
Electronics
A switch-up for mobile networking
15 September 2026A new switchable radio frequency filter could help mobile devices stay compact, affordable while keeping up with the growing number of bands required by next-generation communication networks.
Infectious Diseases
Battling the blaze of malarial infection
10 September 2026A*STAR researchers discover a new vaccine target for malaria that could offer more durable protection.
