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International Business Times
April 1, 2020

Coronavirus Testing: Singapore Team Develops 5-Minute COVID-19 Test, To Seek Approval Soon

The Straits Times
March 25, 2020

Coronavirus: Singapore Scientists on the Front Lines of Fight against COVID-19

Berita Mediacorp
March 25, 2020

Masagos Puji Prof Jackie Ying, Pelajar PhD Muhammad Nadjad atas Kejayaan Hasilkan Kit Baru bagi Uji COVID-19

The Straits Times
March 20, 2020

A*STAR Researchers Design Safer Lithium Batteries for Electronic Products

Nanowerk News
May 23, 2019

Molecules Swing Electrolytes across Membranes to Kill Cancer Cells

The Business Times
June 6, 2018

Wanted: Women in STEM

The Straits Times
April 26, 2018

Singapore a Hotbed for Female Inventors, New Figures Show

World Intellectual Property Organization
April 26, 2018

World Intellectual Property Day 2018 Celebrates Women’s Accomplishments: New WIPO Figures Show Highest-Ever Rate of Women Inventors, but Gender Gap Persists




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Molecules Swing Electrolytes across Membranes to Kill Cancer Cells
Nanowerk News| May 23, 2019

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Researchers from Singapore have designed the world’s first ‘molecular swing’ to transport electrolytes across cell membranes. In a recent paper (“Molecular Swings as Extremely Active Ion Transporters”), the scientists from NanoBio Lab (NBL) and Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) demonstrated that their new mechanism transported potassium ions 27% faster than gramicidin A, a naturally occurring highly active peptide transporter.


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Wanted: women in STEM
The Business Times| June 6, 2018

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As Singapore moves towards becoming a smart nation, there is a need to encourage more women to enter science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) fields to help develop solutions for a digital age. Yet, the under-representation of women in STEM careers has not changed much in the last few decades. Globally, women account for only 20-25 per cent of the STEM workforce, especially in engineering and computer science.

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Singapore a Hotbed for Female Inventors, New Figures Show
The Straits Times| April 26, 2018

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Singapore is proving to be a hotbed for female inventors, new statistics show.

Of the 664 patent applications to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) last year, 41.7 per cent of them included women.

This compares to the international figure at 31 per cent out of 224,000 patent filings under the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) system last year, and 23 per cent a decade ago.

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World Intellectual Property Day 2018 Celebrates Women’s Accomplishments: New WIPO Figures Show Highest-Ever Rate of Women Inventors, but Gender Gap Persists
World Intellectual Property Organization| April 26, 2018

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The fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and chemistry show the highest rates of women named as inventors in international patent applications filed via WIPO, new figures indicate, as World IP Day 2018 celebrates women driving positive change across the globe.

New data reveal that in total, women were listed in 31 percent of the 243,500 international patent applications published by WIPO in 2017, up from 23 percent a decade earlier (See Annex 1 PDF, PCT applications with women inventors for all data).

WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said these new data show positive trends and underlined this year’s World IP Day theme “Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity.” But he noted that a pronounced gender gap exists.

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