In Focus
The bite of the Indian cobra can be deadly. Professor R. Manjunatha Kini from NUS, along with a team of international collaborators, have reported the sequencing and assembly of a high-quality genome of this venomous snake
Researchers from NUS Mechanobiology Institute found that the formation of the ‘V’ patterns – also known as chevron patterns – in the swimming muscles of fish do not simply arise from genetic instruction or biochemical pathways but actually require physical forces to correctly develop.
NUS researchers have developed flexible, highly-efficient, large-area light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for new wearable device technologies. The novel LEDs emit light in the near-infrared range and could be used in facial recognition or virtual reality eye-tracking technologies.
These beautiful artistic crystals resulted when NUS Chemistry researchers recrystallised an organic compound under different conditions. They also obtained the usual straight crystals in addition to flexible crystals.
Researchers from the NUS Mechanobiology Institute have shown that cells migrate and spread effectively only if the fibrous protein meshwork that surrounds them is spaced close enough. This finding could explain the abnormal motility patterns displayed by cancer cells.