More Fun & Helpful Activities with the SBS Alumni Association

More Fun & Helpful Activities with the SBS Alumni Association

Driven to bring the SBS alumni community together, the newly elected AA committee has successfully recruited more members on board the AA, who will be helping in 3 different pillars – Events, Business Development and Publicity & Publications consisting of 3 Chief Exco & 10 Exco members. We can look forward to see more fun and helpful events for alumni and students that involve collaborations with the Career Advancement Office, Biological Sciences Undergraduate Club (BS Club) and the Biology Graduate Students Club (BGSC).

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New compounds to kill multidrug-resistant TB

New compounds to kill multidrug-resistant TB

A new series of chemical compounds that can kill multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), have been developed and commercialised by a joint team from NTU Singapore and Experimental Drug Development Centre (EDDC), a national drug discovery and development platform hosted by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

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Understanding breeding history of Lychee opens opportunities for better harvests

Understanding breeding history of Lychee opens opportunities for better harvests

Assistant Professor Jarkko Salojärvi from NTU SBS, together with a team of Chinese and American researchers made novel insights into the domestication history of lychee and identified the underlying genetics of this important tropical fruit that encode important agricultural traits. The study made by the team was published in Nature Genetics in January 2022, with their significant discoveries on Lychee featured on the cover of the Vol. 54 Issue 1 of Nature Genetics.

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