By Victoria Vaughan

A BIOCHIP which sieves cancer cells from the blood has been developed by a team of mechanical engineers from the National University of Singapore.

Capturing the cells without damaging them - a feat considered very difficult until now - allows doctors to study the cancer and see how the disease has progressed.

After passing just two teaspoons (10ml) of blood through the micro device, experts can count the number of cancer cells in the blood stream through a microscope and collect the cancer cells for further tests.

Education experts to meet here in July

SPECIALISTS in education will be here for a series of meetings and conferences next month.

The International Education Roundtable, to be held from July6 to 8, will bring together education ministers and senior government officials from Victoria in Australia, Alberta in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Sweden and the United States.

Education Minister Ng Eng Hen and Sir Michael Barber, a partner at McKinsey & Company, will co-chair the session on issues such as how to attract and recruit good teachers and groom school leaders.

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