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Singapore, 27 Nov- A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and SFC Fluidics, a USA microfluidics-based biomedical device development company, will be collaborating to develop a portable diagnostic tool for rapid triaging of traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims and to improve the treatment strategies.

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Aichi, Japan, 19 November 2012 - Over 180 participants attended the IRAGO Conference in Aichi, Japan which aimed to enhance mutual understanding between scientists, engineers and policy makers. Topics tackled ranged from energy and natural resources to public health and disaster prevention.

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Dusseldorf, Germany, 14 November 2012 – The Biofactory introduced today its ColoQuik line of label-free kits for the rapid colorimetric detection of protein-DNA interactions in biomedical research labs and the pharmaceutical industry. The kits are based on a unique technology developed by A*STAR Singapore.

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SINGAPORE, 9 November 2012: Singapore announces 8 biomedical sciences research programmes to advance understanding and treatment of diseases especially prevalent amongst the Asian population. This includes eye diseases, lung and stomach cancer and rare genetic diseases.

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A model that shows how connections in the brain must change to form memories could help to develop artificial cognitive computers

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