From Gene to Activity – Exploiting the Potential of Nestlé Culture Collection
Nestlé boasts a culture collection of more than 3000 food-grade strains (Nestlé Culture Collection,
NCC) that has been integrated into an R&D network covering microbiology, fermentation,...
Synthetic small intestines for treating and studying intestinal disease
In recent years, it has become widely accepted that in vitro intestinal models enable improved studies of intestinal function in an ethical and well-controlled manner.
Droplet microfluidics: how to do millions of experiments in picoliter volume
Weitz and his group study the physics of soft condensed matter, materials easily deformed by external stresses, electric, magnetic or gravitational fields, and even thermal fluctuations. These materials typically possess structures much larger than...
Enabling a rapid transition to a global bioeconomy with synthetic biology – opportunities and challenges
Petroleum has played an important role in the social, economic and political history of the world particularly in Singapore. The start of the 20th century, led to an industrial revolution in...