National University of Singapore

A doctor reviewing a patient's record in a desktop computer
By  Adam Ang 06:46 am January 10, 2025
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a new analytical tool offering a new approach to analysing brain activity.  The Brain-JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) model identifies brain regions and how they function individually and dynamically with other regions. It also breaks down complex patterns of brain activity into smaller pieces so they can be...
UI screenshot of JarvisMD by HealthBridge AI
By  Adam Ang 01:52 am January 9, 2025
2024 saw the rise of many generative AI applications in various industries, including healthcare, driving work and operational efficiencies like never before.  It is also one of the technology solutions that came out of an accelerator programme by the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Interestingly, the clinical AI copilot might have been...
Co-founders of Health BETA
By  Adam Ang 01:29 am January 9, 2025
Five digital health startups recently graduated from the accelerator programme of the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Started as a hackathon event, the NUS Medicine Digital Advanced Technology Accelerator (DATA) supports startups to quickly scale their solutions for improving patient outcomes and clinician productivity.  "It's truly exciting...
A doctor using a laptop computer
By  Adam Ang 12:30 am October 29, 2024
Collaborative research in Asia has called for prudence in using popular large language model-based (LLM) chatbots as part of public health research and response. In a study, which findings were published in BMJ, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, RMIT University in Vietnam, and the National University of Singapore explored whether or not LLMs bridge or exacerbate the digital...
Researchers reviewing a software analysis
By  Adam Ang 02:43 am October 18, 2024
Biofourmis founder launches health LMM startup  Over a year after leaving biotechnology unicorn Biofourmis, ex-CEO and founder Kuldeep Singh Rajput recently announced that he set up a new health tech company focused on generative AI. In a LinkedIn post, he shared that his newly founded startup, OutcomesAI, has partnered with SingHealth to deploy its large multi-modal model (LMM) called Glia,...
A hydrogel-based sensor detects solid-state biomarkers on the skin
By  Adam Ang 08:59 pm August 22, 2024
A novel wearable sensor developed in Singapore does not rely on common biofluids such as blood and sweat to continuously monitor chronic health conditions. Instead, it uses what is called "solid-state epidermal biomarkers," including cholesterol and lactate, found on the skin. These biomarkers, according to researchers from the National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science,...
Parents holding their newborn child
By  Adam Ang 03:51 am January 10, 2024
The Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore has developed a mobile parenting app which found to be particularly helpful for mothers dealing with postpartum depression amid the recent global pandemic.  The Supportive Parenting app provides information and tips through videos, podcasts, and written articles based on the expertise...
Inventors of the AI-enabled sensor patch for wound monitoring
By  Adam Ang 03:17 am June 30, 2023
Researchers from the National University of Singapore and A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have developed an AI-powered sensor patch for monitoring wound recovery. WHAT IT DOES Called PETAL (Paper-like Battery-free In situ AI-enabled Multiplexed), the patch comprises five colourimetric sensors in a fluidic panel patterned after a five-petal pinwheel flower. Each of the...
NUS team lead researchers pose with the VeCare platform for monitoring chronic wounds.
By  Adam Ang 02:56 am October 25, 2021
In Singapore, a new smart wearable sensor can assess chronic wounds in real-time and wirelessly via a mobile app. The technology was developed by a research team from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), together with their clinical partners from Singapore General Hospital. The...
By  Dean Koh 01:41 am March 5, 2020
A research team from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a unique method for generating and processing fluid droplets under previously unattainable conditions. The new embedded droplet printing method is explained in the research article, "Embedded droplet printing in yield-...