Pathogen Immunobiology laboratory - ID Labs

24/06/2021

21/06/2021

In the June issue of The , we talk to Professor Laurent Renia who shares his journey of a lifetime pursuing breakthroughs in science that led him to become one of the world’s leading experts in infectious diseases and the human immunological response. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3vGRqZJ

06/06/2020

The genome of Sars-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, was sequenced on Jan 11, less than two months after the first cases of atypical pneumonia were reported in Wuhan, China.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

29/04/2020

A nice review on the Immunology of COVID-19 by Lisa Ng and Laurent Renia's labs in collaboration with Paul MacAry (Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, NUS)

25/04/2020

The importance of serology for detection COVID-19 exposure

11/02/2020

Two more novel coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Singapore. One is a Certis Cisco employee who served quarantine orders on two people from Wuhan who l...

17/09/2019

Two immunology giants. When you get the Lasker Award, the Noel prize is not too far.
Max Cooper was on SIgN SAB. A thorough and a gentle man. A great honor for us.

Jacques Miller and Max Cooper, who discovered T- and B-cells, share US$250,000 basic-research prize.

17/09/2019

Important work for the development of new point of care test

Like twins who look almost identical save for subtle distinguishing features, viruses belonging to the same genus can be difficult to tell apart. For instance, the Zika virus, which surfaced as a g…

17/09/2019

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/what-is-herd-immunity

Hassan Vally from Australia's La Trobe University looks at an important issue affecting vaccination uptake.

17/09/2019

https://gizmodo.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-are-breeding-in-brazil-1838146152

An experimental trial to reduce the number of mosquitoes in a Brazilian town by releasing genetically modified mosquitoes has not gone as planned. Traces of the mutated insects have been detected in the natural population of mosquitoes, which was never supposed to happen.

14/09/2019

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/zika-first-cluster-singapore-serangoon-gardens-hemsley-avenue-11903834

SINGAPORE: Three cases of locally transmitted Zika infection have been confirmed in the Serangoon Gardens area, said the National Environment ...

13/09/2019

I don't think so

https://www.newsweek.com/malaria-could-eradicated-2050-leading-experts-say-1458010

Experts described the goal to wipe out the disease in a generation as "ambitious, achievable, and necessary."

10/09/2019

https://coconuts.co/yangon/news/nasa-pioneers-malaria-predicting-technology-in-myanmar/

NASA is developing a new technique to forecast malaria outbreaks in Myanmar from space, as the emergence of new drug-resistant strains in Southeast Asia threatens efforts to wipe out the deadly disease globally The goal of...

03/09/2019

Another good collaborative work

Present understanding of Plasmodium vivax biology is hampered by its inability to grow in vitro. Here, the authors developed an in vitro culture of its simian counterpart, P. cynomolgi, which shares morphological and phenotypic similarities with P. vivax, initiating a new phase in vivax research.

14/08/2019

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1193053724167039

14/08/2019

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2019/05/09/antimicrobial-resistance-is-being-called-a-sustainable-development-issue/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0fRNLDTUDZvI5Ty5GnLYb-K7G3aC6A4sVhG1i9M2JMAtJq55lYrtjRn9Y

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing threats to human existence. And a recent report from two Swedish organizations argues that AMR should be thought of not just as a matter of health, but more broadly as a development issue.

14/08/2019

https://monthlyreview.org/2019/06/01/superbugs-in-the-anthropocene/?fbclid=IwAR0FIZHHWmp8RiI7QvCAxjvP9o_p8UPQ4soGCS77PKINoGb0N3ZVTyu4Vc8