Coconut oil is high in saturated fat and may, therefore, raise serum cholesterol concentrations, but beneficial effects on other cardiovascular risk factors have also been suggested. Seah Yi Hoong and his team conducted a systematic review of the effect of coconut oil consumption on blood lipids and other cardiovascular risk factors compared with other cooking oils using data from clinical trials.
Derrick Johnston Alperet’s research “The effect of coffee consumption on insulin sensitivity and other biological risk factors for type 2 diabetes: a randomized placebo-controlled trial” was published in the highest ranked journal in the field of nutrition, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study suggests that coffee consumption reduces body fat but does not influence insulin sensitivity.
Led by Prof Lim Chwee Teck and NGS graduate Lim Su Bin, the research team discovered a new personalised tool to detect cancer, predict patient survivability and how well a cancer patient would respond to immunotherapy.
Jani Hariom Kirit and his team piloted low-cost experimental set-ups set-ups to aid learning of abstract concepts in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.
Fong Jia Yi’s “Therapeutic Targeting of RNA Splicing Catalysis through Inhibition of Protein Arginine Methylation” was published in Cancer Cell.
Tee Jie Kai’s “Nanoparticles promote in vivo breast cancer cells intravasation and extravasation by inducing endothelial leakiness” was published in Nature Nanotechnology.
Zhizhan Qiu’s “Giant gate-tunable bandgap renormalization and excitonic effects in a 2D semiconductor” was published in Science Advances.
Zhang Mengmi’s paper “Finding any Waldo with zero-shot invariant and efficient visual search” has been published in Nature Communications. Research was done in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Oktoviano Gandhia’s paper “Analytical Approach to Reactive Power Dispatch and Energy Arbitrage in Distribution Systems with DERs” has just been published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Ibrahim Abdelwahab’s paper “Molecularly thin two-dimensional hybrid perovskites with tunable optoelectronic properties due to reversible surface relaxation.” has been published in Nature Materials.
“An extracellular matrix-related prognostic and predictive indicator for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer” jointly published by Lim Su Bin (NGS student) and Tan Swee Jin (NGS alumnus) in Nature Communications.
Sherman J. R. Tan, Ibrahim Abdelwahab, and Sock Mui Poh’s publication, “Chemical Stabilization of 1T’ Phase Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Giant Optical Kerr Nonlinearity” in Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017).
