Latest News Releases 15 September

SMU Associate Professor Pradeep Varakantham is working with the Singapore Civil Defence Force to create a digital programme to provide faster and more comprehensive paramedic training.

New research, led by SMU Associate Professor Shih-Fen Cheng, is utilising big data from Singapore's transport gig economy to evaluate how and at what rate individuals learn over time.

Researchers led by Prof. WU Zhengyan from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Institute of Health and Medical Technology and the Binzhou Medical University fabricated a series of Gd-doped iron oxide nanoclusters to systemically study the inherent mechanism through which Gd doping tune the T2 contrast ability of the nanoclusters.

SMU Associate Professor Marko Pitesa’s research aims to design an intervention plan to leverage mid-career job opportunities, particularly for lower-SES employees.

University of Tsukuba researchers identified warm conditions in the Indian Ocean as a major factor driving both warm winters and extreme summer rainfall in central China and Japan. An anomalous anticyclone in the subtropical western Pacific was strongly associated with the provision of moisture to sustain the extreme rainfall, leading to catastrophic flooding events. These observations could be applied to future forecasting and prediction of extreme summer rainfall in East Asia.

New research published in Stem Cell Reports has found elevated cholesterol supply from astrocytes to neurons in the model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, suggesting that modulating brain cholesterol could be explored in the search of treatment options for the devastating, degenerative disease.

Using light beads microscopy, researchers can now capture images of a vast number of cells across different depths in the brain at high speed, with unprecedented clarity.

The chemical steps involved in an important cellular modification process that adds a chemical tag to some RNAs has been revealed in a new study by Penn State researchers. Interfering with this process in humans can lead to neuronal diseases, diabetes, and cancers.