A team of scientists from the NTU School of Biological Sciences have found that ponatinib, a drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia, has shown exceptional promise in stopping the growth of ALT-dependent cancerous cells.
A team of scientists from the NTU School of Biological Sciences have carried out research into how plants react to stressful conditions and devised a computational method that allows scientists to predict how plants will respond to complex environmental stresses. Their paper discussing their research and new computational method was recently accepted into the prestigious scientific journal, Nature Communications.
A team of scientists from the NTU School of Biological Sciences (SBS), led by Associate Professor Marek Mutwil, have shown that ursolic acid present in extracts from O. corymbosa is active against breast cancer cells. In a paper published in the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, the team also succeeded in assembling a high-quality genome of O. corymbosa, and uncovered two genes involved in the biosynthesis of ursolic acid – thus paving the way for developing this valuable compound.
A team of scientists from NTU SBS, led by Nanyang Assistant Professor Li Yinghui, have uncovered new areas along protein pathways in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas that are potential sites for targeted cancer treatments, thereby reducing the risk of cancer relapses or refractory occurrences in patients.
Chan Luo Xi, an undergraduate from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS) in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has won the first Ling Yu Chich-Chen Siew Chee Award. The award was established by Professor Ling San, Acting...
Dr Sandhya Sriram graduated from NTU School of Biological Sciences (SBS) in 2013 with a Ph.D. in Research. She is now the Group CEO and Co-founder of Shiok Meats, the first cultivated crustacean company in the world and the first cultivated seafood and meat company in Southeast Asia. Congratulations!
Congratulations Vijay Varsheni from the School of Biological Sciences on her award as the Overall Winner for the 2022 Discover URECA Poster Competition in the Medical and Biomedical Sciences category. She has been selected to showcase her research online at the...
Assistant Professor Yan Zhenzhen, a mathematician specializing in optimization and data analytics, is developing decision models to help online retailers improve their logistics.
Growth of the Amazon rainforest in our increasingly carbon-rich atmosphere could be limited by a lack of phosphorus in the soil, new research shows. The study, published in the journal Nature, was carried out by an international team led by Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), the University of Exeter, and Nanyang Technological University.
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. First up, we have Ho Zhi Qing from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS).