Press Releases

04 Sep 2026

NUHS@Home scales bed capacity 15-fold, saving 21,800 hospital bed-days

Held from 3 to 5 September 2026, Singapore's first behavioural and implementation sciences in health conference, Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health, Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) spotlights AI, health innovation and successful scale-up of hospital-at-home care.  NUHS@Home was featured as a real-world case study of implementation science in action where Professor Nick Sevdalis, Director of BISI used implementation science methods to help NUHS@Home evaluate how best to expand the programme safely and effectively from a small pilot into a full-scale service.

01 Sep 2026

Short mitochondrial protein may help protect the ageing heart from inflammation and failure

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have discovered that a relatively short protein may play an important role in protecting the ageing heart. The protein, known as STMP1, is made up of 47 amino acids and helps maintain the internal structure of mitochondria, which are parts of cells that produce energy.

27 Aug 2026

People say they would not want to test embryos for traits like low IQ. But if given the information, they act on it

A study of more than 2,000 people in the United States and China finds that the line between medical and non-medical traits, which underpins the rules on embryo testing in most countries, does not match the preferences of the public.

25 Aug 2026

Bioinspired nanoparticles deliver gene editing to lower “bad” cholesterol

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and Tianjin Medical University General Hospital have developed a bioinspired lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that can deliver gene-editing machinery to the liver and reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, commonly known as “bad” cholesterol.

20 Aug 2026

Road injuries cost Singapore nearly 9,700 healthy years in 2023, global study finds

Road injuries cost Singapore an estimated 9,680 years of healthy life in 2023 through premature death and disability, according to a new global study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in collaboration with NUS Medicine.

18 Aug 2026

New “master switch” linked to aggressive breast cancer, with drug shown to slow tumour growth

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have identified a ‘master switch’ responsible for driving tumour growth in an aggressive form of breast cancer. Blocking the switch with a targeted drug was also found to reduce cancer cell growth and reduce its spread.

17 Aug 2026

AI-powered rehabilitation and accessibility solutions take top prizes at Medical Grand Challenge 2026 The

This year’s winning teams at the Medical Grand Challenge (MGC) 2026 tackled a wide range of healthcare challenges, from rehabilitation and accessibility to maternal health, cancer pain management, fall prevention and patient triage.

13 Aug 2026

NUS Medicine professor becomes his own test subject in longevity study; biological age found to be 15 years younger

The study, named DELTA, was designed around the central idea that everyone has their own biological baseline, shaped by age, stress, sleep, food, exercise and illness and that this baseline shifts over time.

11 Aug 2026

L'Oréal Groupe and NUS Medicine launch multi-year strategic research partnership to advance longevity science, focusing on skin's role in healthy ageing

The partnership brings together L'Oréal's world-leading expertise in skin and hair science with NUS Medicine’s leadership in geroscience and healthy longevity medicine.

22 Jul 2026

Singapore has the world’s longest, healthiest lives — but also more years in poor health

Singaporeans have the world’s highest life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, but a growing number of years are spent in poor health, according to a new global study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in collaboration with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine).