A*STAR Bioprocessing Technology Institute (A*STAR BTI)
On target for the precision health era
30 Dec 2022Multidisciplinary efforts across A*STAR are paving the way toward Singapore’s precision medicine vision.
Making the most of natural cancer killers
30 Nov 2022A*STAR researchers discover a mechanism that fires up the metabolism of cancer-killing immune cells, paving the way for future cancer immunotherapies.
Hitting the antibody manufacturing sweet spot
31 Oct 2022Scientists create a platform for reliably customising antibody molecular structures, opening the door to more potent and effective antibody medicines.
Nucleic acid therapeutics: Riding the wave of mRNA
7 Jun 2022Ushering in an era of targeted precision medicine, scientists across A*STAR are propelling the research, commercialisation and implementation of RNA-based therapeutics.
A*STAR scholars then and now
10 Mar 2022Supported by A*STAR in the early days of their budding careers, scholars recount the experiences that opened the doors to bigger successes from academia to public service.
Smoothing out kinks in vaccine production
16 Dec 2021A new streamlined method for purifying lab-grown viruses could accelerate vaccine production, allowing manufacturers to respond rapidly to emerging viral threats
Building breakthroughs beyond the lab
10 Dec 2021From music streaming technology to COVID-19 tests, A*STAR Assistant Chief Executive (Enterprise) Sze Wee Tan details how the agency is bringing their innovations out of the lab and into the real world.
Three decades of driving dedicated research
7 Dec 2021Through the years, A*STAR has always stood at the forefront of science and technology and innovation. Here’s how A*STAR came to be and what it has in store in the upcoming decades.
A closer look into the genetics of blindness
5 Dec 2021Using whole-exome sequencing, scientists have identified a gene likely linked to a common eye disorder that can lead to blindness in the elderly.
AI makes stem cells less unpredictable
28 Oct 2021A*STAR researchers have created the first machine learning model for predicting clinical outcomes of stem cell therapies in patients with cartilage disorders.
Flipping the switch on gut inflammation
26 Oct 2021A newly-discovered role for an immune regulator in T cells may help unravel the molecular basis of inflammatory bowel disease and serve as a promising therapeutic target.
Coaxing hamster cells to make more antibodies
2 Sep 2021Using a large-scale siRNA screen and CRISPR-Cas9 technology, researchers have pinpointed genes that can enhance antibody production in Chinese hamster ovary cells.