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HIGHLIGHTING THE BEST OF A*STAR
APRIL 2011
–
SEPTEMBER 2011
 
CONTENTS
 A*STAR
 
Research
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Research
is a publication o the Agency or Science, Technologyand Research (A*STAR)—Singapore’s lead government agency orostering world-class scientic research.
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Editorial
Agency or Science, Technology and Research1 Fusionopolis Way, #20-10 Connexis North TowerSingapore 138632, SingaporeEditor-in-Chie Charles ZukoskiEditorial Board Paola CastagnoliKwong Dim-LeeLim Khiang WeeEdison LiuPernille RorthManaging Editor Kostas RepanasAdministrative Assistant Fion CheongISSN 2010-0531
Research Highlights
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CELL BIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY
Cooperating partners | A matter o balance | The cause o joint pain | Getting into shape | Preventing signal overload |Reprogramming with synthetic proteins | Many ways to reach out | Communication breakdown | Learning throughinteraction | Stem cell signaling | Many ways to ght inection | Dierentiation in the balance | The origin o esophageal cancer
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CHEMISTRY & MATERIALS
Amino acids made easy | Finding riends with a golden tip | Split personality | Go with the fow | Let it snow | Stress and strain |Going green with steam | Bubble chemistry | Getting nickel back | Taking the direct approach | Optimum solution |Composite catalysts | Solar express | Copying geckos’ toes | Reversal o ortune
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GENETICS & DISEASE
Inside the decision-making process | The key to transormation | Gut instincts | Size matters | Tightening the belt on tumorgrowth | An old drug revisited | Hand and bone patterning gene | How malaria gets into the brain | More than skin deep |Markers or lymphoma | A x or ragile skin
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PHYSICAL & LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES
Sweet and simple | Flu tracking | A handy kit | Simulating amyloid ormation | Loading up a cure | In tune with the brain |Chewing the at | Dierent places, dierent rules | A test or toxicity | The right gear or the right job | Spotting abdominallesions | Authenticating ancient artiacts | Raman probes or cancer diagnostics | An ear or the cutting edge | Under the‘scope | Bacterial killers | Demystiying natural hierarchy
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ENGINEERING & NANOTECHNOLOGY
Miniature magnetic switches | Hitting all the right notes | Phase o | Pillars o light | Double twist | Keeping the heat on |Plasmonics on the grid | Fast and light | A better business model | Through the crystal spheres | Perect graphene dots | A closerlook | Bright prospects | One and only | Better solar cells around the corner | Wireless liberation | The vibration that smoothes
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The key to data reedom
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An impermeable wrap or utureelectronics
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New ways to harvest light
86
Saeguarding air travel
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Streamlined asset managementtakes fight
89
Local environs explained, andmarketed, in a click
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Tweaking targets or antibiotics
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Game-changing microfuidics
Features and Innovations
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