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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-...