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A new WhatsApp scam prompted Singapore to be more vigilant when it comes to scam texts. With Catos, online forms of misinformation, deepfakes, and other variations of harm have no place to thrive.

They are also committed to investing in AI technologies in the long run.

Deepfakes and AI-edited faces are often too 'perfect', which can help deepfake detection systems to identify them. But a new academic collaboration has devised a way to inject real-world 'flaws' into fake or altered images so that they are much harder to distinguish from real photos.

The p53 protein protects our cells from cancer and is an interesting target for cancer treatments. The problem is, however, that it breaks down rapidly in the cell. Researchers have now found an unusual way of stabilizing the protein and making it more potent. By adding a spider silk protein to p53, they show that it is possible to create a protein that is more stable and capable of killing cancer cells.

The UK's new Labour government has pledged to build 1.5 million homes during its first term in office. To achieve this, it promises planning reform and the reintroduction of local ...

A new industry group known as the AI Alliance believes that artificial intelligence models should be open-source, in contrast to...

But docs aren't ready to ditch the treatment, which is commonly used in Asia

The PSLV rocket lifted off early Saturday morning (April 22).

Her lawyers had asked for no more than 18 months.

A collaboration between A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Biodiversity Medicine (BD-MED) has decoded the entire genetic blueprint of Singapore's National Flower, Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim, also commonly known as Vanda Miss Joaquim (VMJ). Chemical profiling, informed by the genome analysis, further uncovered natural products such as flavonols and anthocyanins, notable…

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and their local collaborators from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) as well as the Department of…

A study has demonstrated that nano-sized vesicles released by red blood cells are a viable platform for delivering immunotherapeutic RNA molecules to suppress breast cancer growth and metastasis. The study successfully delivered RIG-I-activating RNAs using small, lipid membrane-bound particles released by red blood cells, called red blood cell extracellular vesicles (RBCEVs), to suppress cancer progression. The…

A key technical challenge in creating new sulphur-based medicines has been overcome, leading to the prospect of many new therapeutic 'weapons' in the fight against disease and illness. Every successful drug has a part of it that physically fits into the exact biochemical pathway it is trying to disrupt. This part of the drug is known as a 'pharmacophore' and generating new ones is a key goal in drug discovery.…

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a system based on computer vision techniques that allows automatic analysis of biomedical videos captured by microscopy in order to characterize and describe the behavior of the cells that appear in the images.

Some production technology advances will hinge on changing shape of genetic material in mRNA vaccines. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Biochemist who used magnetic resonance spectroscopy to show the state of muscles and organs

New research into tiny magnetic particles that float through the air may help scientists unravel the mysterious causes of Alzheimer's disease.

What's the opposite of OpenAI? IBM and Meta devise plan that includes 50 members.

Global warming has been attributed to the sharp increase in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, in particular CO2 emissions. Carbon capture technology, such as using adsorbents to capture and store CO2 from ambient air, is a promising solution to mitigate emissions.

Scientists from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have developed a new tool, named Bambu, which uses artificial intelligence to identify and characterize new genes, enabling an adaptable analysis across various species and samples. With a better understanding of which and how genes are expressed in samples, Bambu provides a better understanding of how cells function.