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Editorial board member, Evan Newell, introduces the latest issue of A*STAR Research
elcome to the first edition of A*STAR Research for 2017. This issue showcases the most exciting work from A*STAR
researchers published on the website between October and December of 2016. As usual, our researchers produced lots of
great papers, which made selecting which ones to highlight in A*STAR Research a difficult task. So please do let us know if you have any thoughts about the balance of articles, and be sure to keep up to date with A*STAR Research by regularly visiting the website. This issue features Singapore’s strategy
for tacking the exponentially increasing volume of genomics data though a large collaborative project called c-BIG (p. 34), which spans several A*STAR research institutes including the GIS, I2
researchers, can take on big problems such as oil spills and the provision of clean water. It is impossible to introduce all the high-
lights here, but we’d like to point to a few themes, including the very strange properties of light. On page 41, Nikodem Tomczak and colleagues show us new ways to create tiny, but well-behaved sources of light. Even stranger, Dmitry Kalashnikov and his team, show us that light’s ‘spooky’ quantum proper- ties, that even Einstein couldn’t quite wrap his head around, can now be harnessed for practical applications such as environmental monitoring (p. 22). On the biomedical side, several new and
R, IHPC and
the BII. Too much data seems like a good problem to have, but it is still a problem that needs innovative solutions and that is what c-BIG promises to deliver. Our other feature, on page 12, shows how small things, namely nanomaterials developed by IBN
Issue 5 October - December 2016
improved methods for imaging tissues and cells are described, including improved bioacoustic imaging of animals (p. 32), probes for biofilms (p. 26) and a method for measuring tempera- ture at a subcellular level (p. 29). As an immunologist, I am also happy to
introduce several interesting immunology- related studies, including one from Anis Larbi (p. 47) and colleagues that shows us that there is a relationship between the immune system and frailty in elderly Singaporeans. As usual, this is just a cross-section of the
issue; we hope that you enjoy perusing the rest of its offerings.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
A SLICK APPROACH TO CLEANING UP OIL SPILLS
A MILLION CELLS, 2 YEARS: BIG DATA TACKLES ASIAN GENOMES
❯ Ghostly measurements through quantum wizardry ❯ Avoiding adverse reactions to medication ❯ Tofu to make us too full for more
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COVER IMAGE Nanotechnology provides the tools
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