Taiwan high school students won three third-place awards, one fourth-place award and one special award for their outstanding performances at the prestigious Intel International Science and Engineering Fair May 19 in Los Angeles.
When Deep Learning Meets Bioinformatics in Personal Genome Annotation
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), these kinds of terms sound very familiar, right? When you get on to the internet you have great chances of coming across an article or news about the advancement in these areas.
Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Reduces Suicide Risk among Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients
The launch of National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan in 1995 has led to an average of 20% reduction of the relative magnitude of suicide mortality in newly diagnosed cancer patients versus the general population, according to a new study by researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU). This study has been published online on 2 March 2017 in Psycho-Oncology.
Sensors detect disease markers in breath
A small, thin square of an organic plastic that can detect disease markers in breath or toxins in a building’s air could soon be the basis of portable, disposable sensor devices. By riddling the thin plastic films with pores, University of Illinois researchers made the devices sensitive enough to detect at levels that are far too low to smell, yet are important to human health.
MOFA short film highlights Taiwan’s global health contributions
A short film focusing on one of the millions of success stories resulting from international medical contributions by the Republic of China (Taiwan) was released May 6 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Interview with Dr. Rita P.Y. Chen, Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica
Dr. Rita Chen is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Biological Chemistry (IBC) and is also a TIGP-CBMB faculty member. Dr. Chen was awarded her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry at the prestigious University of Cambridge in 1998.
Interview With Aimazing – A Singapore based Startup Disrupting the Contactless Payment in South East Asia
Financial technology, or most commonly known as FinTech, is a business made up of companies that adopt latest technology and innovation with existing resources in order to contest in the marketplace of traditional financial establishments and mediators in the delivery of financial services.
Stay Simple to Express a Noble Aspiration: the RSC & AlChE Fellow—Prof. Chen Yu-wen
Professor Chen Yu-wen from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, a person wearing retro glasses and looking like an artist, was honorably selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) last year and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in this year.
Drug Capture System Developed to treat Limb Ischemia
Dr. Patrick Ching-Ho Hsieh, Dr. Steve Roffler, and colleagues at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences have announced a new treatment for limb ischemia that may solve many of the traditional problems for treating the disease.
Targeting BDNF in the medial thalamus for the treatment of central poststroke pain in a rodent model
Approximately 7-10% of patients develop a chronic pain syndrome after the stroke. This chronic pain condition is called central poststroke pain (CPSP). Recent studies have observed an abnormal increase in the secretion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in spinal cord tissue after spinal cord injury. An animal model of CPSP was established by an intra-thalamus … Continue reading Targeting BDNF in the medial thalamus for the treatment of central poststroke pain in a rodent model
Antibody targeting IL-17B/RB proved effective for pancreatic cancer
Of all battles against cancer, when it comes to the therapeutics for pancreatic cancer, more than ever, it is too little and too late. That is why, when Dr. Wen-Hwa Lee’s team developed an antibody and proved that it can extend the life of lab mice to twice longer than its compared group, the participating scientists are excited, for they have pushed the milestone one step further in finding the therapeutics for pancreatic cancer patients
Peptide Nasal Spray to Delay Onset of Alzheimer’s disease
Dr. Rita P.-Y. Chen, an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Biological Chemistry along with Dr. Pang-hsien Tu, a former Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, and their research teams recently found that a modified short peptide delays the onset of Alzheimer’s disease when delivered in the form of a nasal drop in a mouse model.
BioTaiwan 2017 – One Of the Largest Biotech Events In Asia
The tentative agenda for BioTaiwan 2017 was recently announced, Now is its 16th year, BioTaiwan 2017 is 5 events in 1, including the BioBusiness Asia Conference, Greater China & Asia-Pacific Opportunities Conference, BioTaiwan Exhibition, Company Presentations, One-on-one Partnering and a full Seminar and Workshop program.
Local winners of NASA hackathon announced in Taipei
The winners of the local edition of the NASA Space Apps Challenge, which this year is themed “Earth,” were announced April 30 in Taipei City, with two Taiwan teams nominated to vie against competitors from around the world in the finals of the largest international hackathon.
Top 10 STEM Breakthrough Technologies Of 2017 – MIT Technology Review
The 'MIT Technology Review' has recently shared its top 10 breakthrough technologies of 2017.
