The sensation flutters across your back like a butterfly and crawls up your neck like a spider, provoking an irresistible urge to scratch. For most of us, an itch ends there, but thousands of unlucky people continue to suffer ...
Sep 25, 2015
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A microchip-based test developed by A*STAR researchers can diagnose tuberculosis in 15 minutes. The test meets the speed, cost, accessibility and disposal standards recommended by the World Health Organization for detecting ...
May 17, 2017
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White blood cells called monocytes, that play a vital role in stable immune responses, can now be visualized over time inside the bone marrow using a new reporter mouse developed by A*STAR researchers.
Oct 21, 2015
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Scientists from A*STAR's Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) led in the discovery that two little-known fat cell markers have huge potential to assist researchers to further their understanding of fats. The discovery was ...
Feb 20, 2014
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Singapore and China scientists, headed by Dr Liu Jianjun, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Human Genetics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Dr Gu Jieruo, a rheumatologist at the 3rd Affiliated Hospital ...
Dec 5, 2011
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As people age, their immune system gradually deteriorates and their ability to respond optimally to infections declines, a process called 'immunosenescence'. A*STAR research shows that not all types of T cells, a type of ...
Jan 11, 2017
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Using self-cleaving peptides, A*STAR researchers have designed a vector that improves efficiency for monoclonal antibody production, offering potential for improved preclinical studies.
Sep 11, 2015
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Mobile pieces of DNA can jump around in the human genome and exert powerful regulatory effects on neighboring genes at new insertion sites. The most common mobile genetic elements are known as LINE-1 retrotransposons and ...
Sep 10, 2014
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which afflicts millions of people worldwide, arises when the immune system mounts an overly aggressive response against microorganisms, dietary substances, or cells of the gut. A*STAR researchers ...
Aug 30, 2018
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Genomic detectives have traced the most recent outbreak of Zika—a mosquito-borne virus that became a pandemic linked to neurological defects—back to a strain in South-east Asia.
Aug 10, 2017
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