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...
Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is often termed the blueprint of all life on Earth. Packed away in the nuclei of most cells, the genetic information stored in DNA contains instructions for all the functions, structures, and hereditary information of a living organism....
It all started when Lim Rui Qi, Audrey, a Year 4 Biological Sciences undergraduate from Nanyang Technological University reached out to Assistant Prof Ma Wei to join his lab because of her passion in plant science since young.
While the world focuses on building human immunity against the virus, Associate Professor Miao Yansong from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at Nanyang Technological University dedicated his efforts to research on the mechanisms underlying plant immunity during bacterial invasion.
On 29 January, NTU College of Science (CoS) invited prospective students to tune into an online Career Talk via livestream and to bring with them their burning questions on university life in NTU, an academic path in Science, and what career prospects they could have...