Highlights
Security
Bridging the security divide for chat applications
28 January 2018Successful decrypting demonstrations
show that chat-app designers should improve the ways they protect users’ personal data
Colloids
Let liquid fingers point the way
28 January 2018Tiny gold spheres can be manipulated on surfaces with nanometer precision using the effects of solvent evaporation
Alloy
Picking winners from millions of possibilities
15 January 2018A
clever simulation scheme helps identify the most promising compositions of
two-dimensional materials
Cancer
More evidence for metformin
15 January 2018A
popular diabetes drug could one day be used to treat malignant tumors
Macrophages
Gut bacteria implicated in liver inflammation
15 January 2018The
effect of gut bacteria on specific immune cells is behind persistent liver
inflammation in chronic viral hepatitis
A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR BII)
All in a molecule of water for effective cancer therapy
15 January 2018Molecular simulations
reveal why certain cancer therapeutics may bind — or fail to bind — to mutant proteins
Antibiotic Resistance
Taking a stab at microbes
15 January 2018Arrays of tiny, rigid, and sharp pillars mimic natural antimicrobial surfaces by binding and breaking bacterial cells open.
Reflector
Escaping silicon
21 December 2017An
alternative fabrication scheme for microscale semiconductor lasers could expand
the applications of on-chip lasers beyond conventional silicon
A*STAR Institute Of Molecular And Cell Biology (A*STAR IMCB)
Keeping stem cells naïve
21 December 2017Two proteins maintain embryonic stem cell pluripotency
through different means
Isolate Catalyst
A catalyst for change in chemical etching
21 December 2017A
simple, versatile and low-cost technique for etching nanoholes in silicon could
underpin new filtration and
nanophotonic devices
Fluorescence-activated Cell Sorting
A new weapon against the Zika virus
21 December 2017An existing laboratory technique can detect Zika virus
infection and may help make
diagnostic tests more accessible
Developmental Immunology
Fetal immune system developed, but tolerant
18 December 2017More mysteries of the developing immune system have been revealed in a study of fetal
dendritic cells
Congenital Disorder
Of mice and men
13 December 2017A rare mutation causes severe growth retardation and spine malformation in humans and mice
