A*STAR
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A*STAR SIMTech launches microfluidics foundry
Aims to exploit opportunities in the microfluidics space through harnessing its strengths in multi-disciplinary research across the biomedical, physical and engineering sciences.
A*STAR | 21 September 2011
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Agilent and A*STAR launch drug screening platform in Singapore
Agilent Technologies Inc and A*STAR’s Experimental Therapeutics Center (ETC) announced the launch of a drug-screening platform within ETC’s Singapore Screening Center. A*Star selected Agilent to provide a full spectrum of automation technologies …
A*STAR | 21 July 2011
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Agilent and A*STAR launch drug screening platform in Singapore
Agilent Technologies Inc and A*STAR's Experimental Therapeutics Center (ETC) announced the launch of a drugscreening platform within ETC's Singapore Screening Center. A*Star selected Agilent to provide a full spectrum of automation technologies to bi…
A*STAR | 01 July 2011
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A*Star scientists make breakthroughs against cancer
Scientists from Singapore’s Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) have made three successive breakthroughs in key areas of cancer research. Their work sheds light on the mechanism behind cancer metastasis, suggest why breast cancer c…
A*STAR | 01 August 2010
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Detecting DNA the Electrochemical Way
Recent advances in nanotechnology have opened new opportunities for electrical detection system for biomolecules.
A*STAR | 01 November 2008
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NZ and Singapore set up first joint R&D research fund in heart disease and cancer
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has teamed up with the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) to launch the new A*STAR-NZ Joint Research Fund worth $2.31 million for research in heart disease and cancer. T…
A*STAR | 20 October 2008
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Study Shows Heterogeneity in Brain Tumor Cells-of-Origin
A new study led by the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), A*STAR shows for the first time that primary brain tumors are caused by a minority group of cells that display a genetic profile disti…
A*STAR | 01 October 2008
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Experts spoke on resistance to anti-malaria drugs and diagnostics for infectious disease
More than 200 researchers from major universities, research institutions and hospitals in Singapore and the region gathered at Biopolis, Singapore, to hear 14 internationally renowned infectious disease and malaria experts from the UK, Singapore and …
A*STAR | 11 September 2008
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New deputy chairman of A*STAR’s Biomedical Sciences & Technology Group
Professor Sir George Radda will be taking on a new leadership role in the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) as the deputy chairman of A*STAR’s Biomedical Sciences & Technology Group (BSTG), Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) from…
A*STAR | 26 August 2008
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Scientific Pioneer Davor Solter Joins A*STAR
Stem cell biologist Professor Davor Solter from the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology (Germany) and the Wistar Institute at Philadelphia (USA) will set up a research programme to study gene expression in early mammalian embryos at A*STAR Institut…
A*STAR | 27 March 2008
