A research powerhouse where materials physics, synthetic biology and cancer medicine converge on problems of tropical and global consequence.
NUS materials scientists have woven display-and-sensor fibres into a sleeve that behaves as a full-colour touchscreen, and still survives the laundry.
By collapsing sensing and display into one ultrathin film, NUS engineers have built a tactile surface fine enough to resolve fingerprint ridges.
A S$60 million institute hosted by NUS will treat the city state's coastal seas as a single connected system, from biodiversity to the blue economy.
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore researchers have identified DDX6 as a suppressor of the double-stranded RNA alarm, and overturned an assumption about RNA editing.
Heating only a thin wire rather than an entire vessel lets an electrified NUS reactor crack ammonia, break down plastics and convert methane.
Magnetic tunnel junctions give NUS engineers a source of tuneable noise, and with it processors that beat conventional hardware on combinatorial search.
Mixing virus-like particles into feed, rather than injecting each fish, offers aquaculture a route to vaccinating larvae at scale.
Singapore's national AI for Science initiative placed half its first cohort of projects at NUS, spanning materials, genomics, agriculture and program verification.
A spinach-derived nanoextract turns ambient light into the molecule depleted in dry eye disease, interrupting the cycle of inflammation and damage.
Tagging thirty gold nanoparticle designs with unique DNA sequences let NUS researchers track them all at once, and find one that reaches cancer mitochondria.
Two reprogrammed Lactobacillus strains intercept ammonia in the gut before it can reach the brain, outperforming a standard antibiotic in preclinical tests.
Training on more than three million interacting pairs improved prediction accuracy by up to 17 per cent, including on notoriously hard antibody cases.
Linking two tissues so they pull against each other turned spontaneous twitching into a workout, and produced the fastest biohybrid swimmer reported.
NUS food scientists identified an exopolysaccharide that binds norovirus directly, and showed it can be produced by fermenting carrot juice.
D-I-TASSER tackles the large multi-domain proteins that defeat purely learned approaches, by predicting sections then assembling them.
The Centre for Sleep and Cognition and smart ring maker Oura have opened a research entity built on six years of validation work.
Dissolving patches bypass the soil entirely, carrying beneficial bacteria into leaves and stems and cutting biofertiliser use by more than 15 per cent.
The instability was not in the perovskite but in a thin charge-transport monolayer, and redesigning it carried cells past 1,200 hours at 65 degrees.