A PROGRAMME to give small and medium enterprises (SMEs) a technological boost will be expanded to include the biomedical sector, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Office S. Iswaran yesterday. The GET-Up scheme as it is called has been mainly for engineering and electronics firms. Under a subcomponent of the programme known as 'T-Up', researchers from the Singapore Institute of...

ONE scientist built a laboratory from scratch to enable a plastics and mechanical parts company to begin serving the automotive industry. Another two worked on software that helps distribute spare aeroparts among airports - potentially minimising the number of ground delays.These scientists, whose expertise would normally command a hefty salary, are part of a scheme that partners researchers with...

ONCE a week, for six months, nurse clinician Hone Swee Mui would devote more than two hours after work to learn hairdressing. It was a skill she was moved to master after seeing the plight of her cancer patients. Bedridden or wheelchair-bound by their illness, they also suffered hair loss from their treatment, making it inconvenient for them to go to a salon, said the 58-year-old who...