Toward clearer, cheaper imaging of ultrafast phenomena

15-Oct-2015 - Many mysteries of nature are locked up in the world of the very small and the very fast. Chemical reactions and material phase transitions, for example, happen on the scale of atoms and attoseconds. A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, in collaboration ...

Pfizer, GSK, and Siemens form R&D Consortium with A*STAR’s Institute of Chemical & Engineering Sciences

New programme aims to help companies increase productivity with technology solutions for pharmaceutical and chemical sectors

21-Jun-2013 - Pfizer Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd, Glaxo Wellcome Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. and Siemens Pte. Ltd, have signed on as founding members of a new A*STAR R&D Consortium Programme - Innovative Processing of Specialties and Pharmaceuticals (iPSP). Launched by A*STAR’s Institute of Chemical and Engineering ...

H5N1 Bird Flu Diagnostic Kit Detects All Known Strains of H5N1 Virus with a Single Test

31-May-2012 - The close collaboration between scientists from the Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) under the Agency for Science and Technology Research (A*STAR) and clinicians from Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) has enabled the successful development of the most comprehensive and rapid H5N1 bird flu test ...

Singapore Launches Infrastructure for Metrology in Chemistry (MiC)

04-Nov-2010 - The National Metrology Centre (NMC) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) have jointly set up a national Metrology in Chemistry (MiC) infrastructure. Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Education, Mr S. Iswaran ...

First 'genetic map' of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes

Genome Institute of Singapore researchers compiled map based on genome-wide variations of 6,000 samples

30-Nov-2009 - The first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time, was published by the American Journal of Human Genetics by scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). Based on genome-wide ...

Singapore researchers first to transform carbon dioxide into methanol

'Green' method for sequestration and conversion of greenhouse gas

22-Apr-2009 - Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have succeeded in unlocking the potential of carbon dioxide - a common greenhouse gas - by converting it into a more useful product. In the international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, the IBN researchers report ...

Singapore scientists synthesize gold to shed light on cells' inner workings

21-Apr-2009 - Highly fluorescent gold nanoclusters for sub-cellular imaging have been synthesized by researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), one of the research institutes of Singapore's A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research). Measuring less than 1 nanometer in ...

Nanostart AG Marks Entry Into Asia As Lead Investor In Singapore's Biomed Start-Up Curiox

20-Dec-2007 - Nanostart AG, a nanotechnology investment company based in Germany, is taking an investment position in Singapore-based Curiox Biosystems, with a 16.5 per cent investment in the start-up. A spin-off from Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), part of the Agency for ...