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Study quantifies the impact of loneliness in old age on life and health expectancy In 1966, The Beatles cemented the plight of lonely older people in the popular imagination with the iconic 'Eleanor Rigby', a song that turned pop music on its head when it stayed at number one on the British charts for four weeks. Today, the impact of loneliness in old age on life and health expectancy has been categorically quantified for the first time in a study by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore), Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan) and their collaborators, published in the Journal of the Ame...

NUS scientists have developed a new technique called extracellular vesicle monitoring of small-molecule chemical occupancy and protein expression (ExoSCOPE) that is accurate, less invasive and significantly brings forward the evaluation window, by using liquid biopsies.

Singapore develops world-first blood test to monitor cancer treatment success Singapore develops world-first blood test to monitor cancer treatment success 09 June 2021 | News The ExoSCOPE test accurately classifies disease status and determines treatment outcome within 24 hours after the start of treatment Image credit- NUS Singapore Cancer patients who are undergoing targeted therapy can look forward to a new blood test that could tell their doctors whether the treatment is working, within one day after the start of the treatment.  Assistant Professor Shao Huilin and her resear...

The discovery and development of new small-molecule compounds for therapeutic use involves a huge investment of time, effort and resources. Giving a new spin to conventional chemical synthesis, a team of researchers from the National University of Si

A significant number of patients are resistant to such treatments and relapse soon afterwards