Have you ever wondered how plant organs have evolved over the hundreds and millions of years? Land plants evolved from a group of green algae as early as 470 million years ago and all thanks to their evolution, the Earth is beautifully colonized with plants of different species.
Identified by the Mistletoe Research Fellowship (MRF) Reward Committee for her “collaborative spirit, intellectual curiosity, and resiliency”, Dr Loo Shining has been selected as a Mistletoe Research Fellow for the 2021-2022 cycle.
Our warmest congratulations to Associate Professor Miao Yansong from the School of Biological Sciences, on receiving a special mention for the Graduate Mentoring Award for AY2020-21 at NTU’s Graduate College Award!
TOPNet, a collaboration between scientists from NTU and the Experimental Drug Development Centre, aims to develop new solutions to treat the ancient disease.
NTU students Elysia and Christopher emerged winners in the 2021 Grass Roots Student Project Competition organised by RS Components, an MNC which specialises in electronics, automation and control components. Their project, the Remotely-Controlled Biological Microscope, was developed for the Making & Tinkering undergraduate course, which is offered by CoS.
Congratulations to Team Benthos on winning the International Natural Sciences Tournament (INST)! The INST Grand Finals concluded on 25 July 2021.
Scientists in Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) led by Professor James P Tam, have discovered a first-in-class, plant-derived epidermal growth factor (EGF) and an ultrastable analog for healing of chronic wounds, an unmet problem in treatment of diabetic wounds. This is the first EGF receptor agonist that is structurally different from all previous EGFs and first such growth factor found in plants – the rose cactus, used widely in Southeast Asia. Since aberrant regulation of EGF or its receptor is associated with certain type of cancers, their findings also open new avenues to develop targeted therapies for cancer.
Plant diseases are not only a nuisance to neighbourhood gardeners, but more importantly, have a direct impact on a country’s agri-food industry. Associate Professor Miao Yansong, a plant scientist from the NTU School of Biological Sciences, recently published a study that shed some light on the field of plant immune response against microbial pathogens.
Kong Weijia, a PhD student in the NTU School of Biological Sciences, finished 1st in Singapore and 12th worldwide (out of more than 6600 participants) in the Code Jam to I/O for Women, a coding competition organised by Google. Science@NTU caught up with Weijia to find out more about her experience with Code Jam, and her aspirations as a woman in science.
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the most serious infectious diseases in the world, accounting for 1.7 million deaths in 2019. Approximately a quarter of the world’s population is infected with the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis in latent form. TB is of...