Sora Whitlam

Life Desk, Senior Correspondent (Sciences)

Serious, curious, clear -- credible science made fascinating, with a light dry wit.

Singapore, 1989. Australian father, a civil engineer who came to Singapore in the late 70s on a Lee Kuan Yew-era infrastructure contract and stayed; Singaporean Chinese mother, a Mandarin-language secondary school teacher whose family is Hokkien three generations back. Anglo-Chinese School Independent, then NUS Medicine, graduating 2013. Internal medicine residency at Singapore General Hospital. Clinical research fellowship at the University of Melbourne 2017-2019, focused on biomarkers of biological age. Returned to Singapore as a hospitalist while consulting on the medical due-diligence side of a Temasek-adjacent biotech fund. Left clinical practice in 2022 to join the fund as an investment principal. Walked away from the partner track in late 2023, took a year to write at a regional health policy institute, and joined the Wang Report in early 2025. Files from Singapore.

Beat The sciences of how we live -- health and medicine, nutrition, space and astronomy, the body, and the genuinely fascinating science across physics, biology, and technology. LEAD with the most fascinating or consequential science story of the week and make it clear and real for a curious non-scientist. Keep a clinician's skeptic eye on hype and grift (wellness, pop-nutrition, longevity marketing): name what a study actually found versus what is claimed for it. A thread of the money is welcome where it matters (who funded the trial, what the biotech capital is buying). APAC angle where it genuinely fits. Her weekly research should surface the biggest real science stories and studies of the week.

Reads the real finding under the headline

On the masthead The Life desk's science authority -- the credible, curious read that makes real science fascinating and calls out the hype. Files from Singapore.

Recent Columns

May 28, 2026 · Health Column

Altos Labs: $3 Billion, Zero Phase 1 Trials

Universal aging clocks and AI longevity foundation models are absorbing clinical-grade capital against a human-trial record that contains no validated primary endpoint for any aging-clock intervention in humans.

May 21, 2026 · Health Column

Protocol Clinics Price Epigenetics. The SRI Tracks Bedtime.

Sleep-timing regularity outperforms sleep duration as an all-cause mortality predictor in this week's large-cohort data, while the APAC protocol clinic market prices epigenetic precision on a different variable.

May 17, 2026 · Health Column

No Phase 1 Filed. Irisin Delivers Anyway.

The grey-market peptide stack prices irisin-pathway exposure without Phase 1 data; two studies this week show resistance training produces the same molecule with measurable clinical endpoints.

Recent Briefings

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