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In less than a month, the Covid-19 cluster at Changi Airport has swelled to more than 100 people, including airport workers whose jobs did not require them to interact with passengers, family members of front-line staff and visitors.
SINGAPORE - In less than a month, the Covid-19 cluster at Changi Airport has swelled to more than 100 people, including airport workers whose jobs did not require them to interact with passengers, family members of front-line staff and visitors. It is now the largest active cluster in Singapore, and accounts for four of the 30 new community cases reported...
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Under-40s are to be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine - Credit: Danielle Booden Under-40s are to be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine due to a link with extremely rare blood clots. The UK's medicines regulator, the MHRA, said 242 blood clots had been discovered among 28 million people who received first doses of the AZ jab up to April 28. A Covid vaccine being administered at the mass vaccination centre in Castle Quarter, Norwich - Credit: Danielle Booden That is an incidence rate of 10.5 per million. Just six clots were reported among the s...
The living cells are first coated with bromothymol blue, a pH-sensitive dye that changes colour according to acidity levels. — The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE: National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers can now identify cancer cells by studying their acidity or pH levels using artificial intelligence technology. This technique could be potentially useful in detecting cancer cells in tissue samples, either obtained from tumour biopsies or liquid biopsies, which are blood tests. “As the number of cells in these samples can be in millions or even billions, the ability to detect the v...
2021_03_17 NUS researchers harness AI to identify cancer cells by their acidity_1 The novel technique of using AI to quickly analyse cells for cancer diagnosis was developed by an NUS research team led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck (left). With him are two team members – Dr Jokhun Doorgesh Sharma (centre) and Dr Yuri Belotti (right). Healthy and cancer cells can look similar under a microscope. One way of differentiating them is by examining the level of acidity, or pH level, inside the cells. Tapping on this distinguishing characteristic, a research team from the National University of Singa...