Faculty of Science

Department of Biological Sciences

	$10m gift for natural history museum Offer A $10 million gift has just come in from an undisclosed donor, giving a big boost to the fund-raising efforts spearheaded by NUS' department of biological sciences. >> ST Sunday 24 Jan 2010
	Scientists Find Flower Power NUS researchers Assistant Professor Liou Yih Cherng, Associate Professor Yang Daiwen and Associate Professor Yu demonstrate what they can do with the discovery of the 'flower switch'. The plant on the right is in its natural state, while the plant in the middle had the switch turned on. The plant on the left had the switch turned off, resulting in particularly abundant leaves. >> ST 16 Jan 2010, CNA News 18 Jan 2010
	The Venom Doctor In today's edition of Tabla! (Fri, 8 Jan 2010), there was an article featuring Professor Manjunatha Kini, NUS Department of Biological Sciences, who was a world-renowned expert in the field of snake toxins. It was mentioned that Prof Kini began working in the field of snake toxins since he started his PhD work at the University of Mysore in 1979, a field which no researcher in his university had embarked upon. Prof Kini's journey to unravel the mysteries of snake toxin took him to Japan as a post-doctoral fellow in Fukuoka's Kyushu University. The article also mentioned that Prof Kini had been averaging about one patent a year after joining NUS and he had 20 patents to his credit-all in protein chemistry. >>pdf

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