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Finance Minister Lawrence Wong appointed deputy chairman of MAS board of directors
A view of the Monetary Authority of Singapore s headquarters on Jun 28, 2017. (File photo: Reuters/Darren Whiteside)
28 May 2021 05:22PM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: Finance Minister Lawrence Wong has been appointed deputy chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore s (MAS) board of directors, the central bank said on Friday (May 28).
He will join the board from Jun 1 to May 31, 2024. He previously served on the board from Jun 10, 2011, to Aug 29, 2016.
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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new biomaterial made entirely from discarded bullfrog skin and fish scales that could help in bone repair.
The porous biomaterial, which contains the same compounds that are predominant in bones, acts as a scaffold for bone-forming cells to adhere to and multiply, leading to the formation of new bone.
Through laboratory experiments, the NTU Singapore team found that human bone-forming cells seeded onto the biomaterial scaffold successfully attached themselves and started multiplying - a sign of growth. They also found that the risk of the biomaterial triggering an inflammatory response is low.
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IMAGE: NTU LKCMedicine Asst Prof Sanjay Chotirmall and his team believe that their proposed concept of understanding infections applies to all forms of infection, and could potentially offer fresh ways of. view more
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Traditionally, an infection is thought to happen when microbes - bacteria, fungi, or viruses - enter and multiply in the body, and its severity is associated with how prevalent the microbes are in the body.
Now, an international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has proposed a new way of understanding infections. Their study of close to 400 respiratory samples from patients with bronchiectasis, a chronic lung condition, has shown that microbes in the body exist as a network, and that an infection s severity could be a result of interactions between these microbes.
COVID underlines value of humanities in medical education
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The following year, she spoke beneath a picture of the Zika virus.
On 27 January 2020, a picture of the novel coronavirus that had recently been identified in Wuhan, China, filled the screen above her as she made her last point about epidemics: “This will happen again, and it will happen to you.”