Androgenetic alopecia is the loss of terminal hair affecting up to 50% of males and 25% of females at age 50. The skin is a complex organ that seems to have its own ecology, how do we understand the factors causing alopecia? Dr S...
What goes into the development of a vaccine? Why are some viruses so hard to weed out? We speak to Dr. Eugenia Ong and Dr. Chan Kuan Rong to see how their lab works to develop biomarkers and test the efficacy of developed vaccines...
What if we could test drugs and immunotherapies on copies of human tumors on a glass slide? While animal models have been indispensable in the study of disease and therapeutics, they can be incredibly expensive, time consuming, an...
Genomics has come such a long way - from radioactive gels, Sanger sequencing, NGS, Single-cell, and now Spatial Transcriptomics. Swati Ranade's career has spanned nearly all of it. She recalls the work she did for her Ph.D. and ha...
Stroke is the number 2 cause of death worldwide and cases that are not fatal potentially change a patient's perception, personality, and physical mobility. Matilde Balbi, Ph.D., and CongWang, Ph.D. from the Queensland Brain Instit...