Managing chronic diseases such as heart failure and hypertension remains one of the most pressing challenges facing ageing societies. In Singapore, where the proportion of older adults is rising rapidly, there is a growing urgency to move beyond episodic, hospital-based care towards continuous, personalised monitoring in homes and communities. Addressing this challenge is the focus of the Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care (WITEC) collaborative research project at

The SMART Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) interdisciplinary group participated at RoboSoft 2026, the 9th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, held in Kanazawa, Japan, from April 7-11. Robosoft 2026 is a leading international conference for sharing cutting-edge research across different fields in soft robotics, which includes wearable systems, medical applications, underwater and aerial robots, and edible and biodegradable systems. The M3S team’s paper titled “Adapti

The Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) aims to develop innovative and disruptive approaches to tackle one of today’s most pressing health threats – antimicrobial resistance. Part of this effort is Zeus Nair, Senior Postdoctoral Associate at SMART AMR. His work centres on uncovering the mechanisms that drive antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, combining hands-on laboratory e

Uncovering How Bacteria Suppress Immune Defences in Stubborn Wound Infections Chronic wound infections, such as diabetic foot ulcers and post-surgical infections, are difficult to treat as some bacteria can interfere with the body’s immune defences. Hence, these persistent wounds place a heavy burden on patients and healthcare systems. Researchers from SMART Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) have uncovered how Enterococcus faecalis (E. faec

A common bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, can suppress the body’s early warning system in wounds, causing infections to persist and create an environment that allows other bacteria to take hold The bacterium releases large amounts of lactic acid in the wound, which lowers pH, weakens immune cells and prevents them from fighting an infection These findings could help develop better ways to treat stubborn wounds – such as diabetic foot ulcers and post-surgical infections – whi

What if machines could “see” the world the way humans do? At the Wafer-scale Integrated Sensing Devices based on Optoelectronic Metasurfaces (WISDOM) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), researchers are working to make this a reality, developing ultra-thin, scalable sensing devices that help machines better understand depth, shape and space like humans do. Wang Yue, Principal Research Scientist at SMART WISDOM , is dr

A novel, rapid and non‑destructive method was developed to provide real-time insights into iron flux in mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) using a micromagnetic resonance relaxometry (µMRR) device The µMRR device enables highly sensitive monitoring of subtle iron concentration changes in MSCs, which provides an indication of their ability to form quality cartilage tissue The study paves the way for more consistent and high-quality manufacturing of MSC-based therapy, a lower cos

Most comprehensive study to date linking global air connectivity and multinational investment, covering 7.5 million firms and 400,000 flight routes over 30 years Beyond evaluating number of direct connections, the researchers' new methodology – measuring pairwise connectivity, and degree, betweenness and eigenvector centrality – identifies the deeper network factors that shape global investment Knowledge-intensive sectors such as finance, technology and professional services

The Food@CREATE Seminar held on 11 February brought together experts from Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) entities and partners, as well as other organisations, to examine how science and technology can support Singapore’s evolving food security strategy. The discussions highlighted research translation and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in strengthening resilience across the agri-food ecosystem. Singapore-MIT Alliance f

A newly developed AI control system using neuron-inspired learning enables soft robotic arms to learn a broad set of motions once and adapt instantly to changing conditions without retraining Inspired by the way the human brain learns, this system is one of the first to achieve three aspects needed to deploy soft robots in real-world environments — learning capabilities that can be generalised across tasks, the ability to maintain performance under diverse disturbances, and a