Zebrafish Study Sheds Light on Potential Effect of Global Warming on Fish Populations
24 January 2017, Singapore – Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) is pleased to announce an interesting discovery on how heat influences the genetic regulation of sexual development in fish. The findings rovide insights into the interplay between genetic and environmental control of sex in zebrafish and indicate potential effects of global warming on natural fish…
Singapore’s Temasek Rice Developed by TLL Scientists for Regional Food Security
6 August 2016, Singapore – Scientists at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) have successfully developed a fragrant rice variety – Temasek Rice, that possesses superior grain quality, is high in dietary fibre and imbued with traits that can mitigate threats from factors such as climate change. This will help contribute to longer-term food security for…
Singapore-led Consortium Deciphers the Genome of Asian Seabass: First Major Tropical Food Fish with its ‘Genetic Blueprint’ Assembled and Read
16 April 2016, Singapore – Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) is pleased to announce the successful sequencing and assembly of the genome of Asian seabass (also known as barramundi). This is the first major tropical food fish to have its genome completed. The article reporting these data has been published online today in the international…
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore and Anhui Rice Research Institute, China Collaborate on Rice Research and Manpower Training
6 March 2015, China and Singapore – Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Anhui Rice Research Institute (ARRI) of Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences are pleased to announce the successful joint development of an improved rice variety, TS4, which has desirable traits such as shorter plant height and growth duration, low amylase content as well…
Discovering a new mechanism for sex control in zebrafish
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Hokkaido University and Ehime University are pleased to announce that their researchers have discovered that the reduction of gonadal stem cells will yield more male zebrafish. The article reporting this finding has been published online in Stem Cell Reports today.