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Dr Swee Lay Thein
A Malaysian-born scientist has made history! Dr Swee Lay Thein is among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, recognised for research that helped pave the way for treatments for inherited blood disorders.
2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesShared with Dr Stuart H. Orkin
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She is the first Malaysian to win the ASTMH Young Investigator Award, Bernama reported.
Two chemists showed how reactions can make just one of two mirror-image molecules, as life does.
Optogenetics switches nerve cells on and off with light. It all began with a tiny alga.
This haemophilia A medicine can be given under the skin as rarely as once a month.
Losing this brain signal causes narcolepsy, a disorder of sudden sleep attacks.
Making proteins right where they are needed, far from the cell body, helps the brain grow and learn.
It was the first gene replacement therapy approved by the US FDA, for an inherited blindness.
Two scientists found the most common genetic cause of both ALS and frontotemporal dementia.
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