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).
As part of School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at NTU’s 20th anniversary celebration, we held a Photo Contest open to all students and staff, calling for photos that represent “Our SBS” to them. The photos we received spoke a thousand words, but there were 3 that the committee and online voters loved the most.
In this series, Science@NTU gets to know the 2022 CoS valedictorians. They give a quick overview of their time in CoS, and also offer a few words of advice on staying positive during these uncertain times. Up next is Damien Chua from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS).
We are proud to share that there are two recipients of the Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) this year. Congratulations graduating students Lim Kai Yi (Eldeen) and Leong Sin Yuen,...
The School of Biological Sciences at NTU would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming support of the school’s 20th Anniversary T-shirt Pre-order. It would not have been possible without the talented students of SBS. Congratulations on getting into the top 3 and having your designs printed for the SBS fam!
This year, there are two deserving recipients of the Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (WiEST) Development Grant from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Congratulations Sint Thida Bo (Alice) and Wong Chui...
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.
It has been more than two years since the circuit breaker. COVID-19 caused many of our lifestyles to change – going digital with e-payments, virtual meetings, virtual conferences and more. The pandemic had also put physical events to halt, and now that the measures...
An NTU-led team determined the structure of a particular ion channel at near-atomic-state – a first in Singapore.
Have you ever wondered how Spotify knows what new tunes to recommend to you? Or how Netflix can suggest another television series for you to binge-watch? It is all down to a branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning, where computer algorithms analyse...