MBI Deputy Director Professor GV Shivashankar has been elected as an Associate Member of EMBO (the European Molecular Biology Organization) making him the first scientist from NUS, and only the third Singapore-based Scientist, to be elected to the prestigious EMBO membership.
MBI Principal Investigator and Deputy Director Professor GV Shivashankar is featured in the Channel News Asia documentary series, Becoming Human: Unnatural Genius to discuss how his lab uses AI and and nuclear mechanogenomic architecture to detect early stage cancer cells.
Researchers turn mature cells into stem cells using mechanical cues alone
Network analysis reveals 3D chromosome organization
How fluctuations in the cell cortex influence nuclear shape
Training machines to recognize cancer cells
The future of disease diagnosis and therapy?
MBI Scientists reveal a spatial dimension to cell signaling
How FHL2 translocates to the nucleus under low tension
Clues to how external forces control nuclear activity
How local forces induce distant effects on actin remodeling
ATR responds to mechanical stimuli to protect DNA
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One of four Research Centres of Excellence at NUS, MBI is working to identify, measure and describe how the forces for motility and morphogenesis are expressed at the molecular, cellular and tissue level.