Scientific Translation Services in Singapore

Not when it is handled under a confidentiality agreement, which is exactly why we sign one before the file is opened. Send your own form if your institution has one. The job is kept to a named pair of people, the draft stays off shared folders, and it is never used as a sample. Do tell your patent agent that a translation vendor has seen it, so the record is clean. Novelty is easy to lose and impossible to get back.

No, and a translator who does that has misunderstood the job. Latin names are the same in every country, so they stay put, in italics, spelled exactly as you wrote them. Gene and protein symbols stay too, right down to the capital letters, because changing a letter can point at a different thing entirely. If your paper also uses a common local name beside the Latin one, we keep both and make clear which is which.

We should not, and neither should anyone else. Hazard and precaution statements are fixed wording, already set out in each language, and each one carries its own code. A nicer sounding version is simply the wrong statement. So we match every code to its official text, and only the free-written parts of the sheet get translated normally. Send us the codes if you have them, and the whole job moves faster.

You have two choices and we will price both. Send the source file the figure was made in, and the labels can be swapped inside it. If the source is gone, we give you a numbered table listing every label with its translation, and your own designer drops them in. What we will not do is redraw your figure and risk shifting a data point. Reviewers do notice when axis labels stop matching the caption.

Probably not, and saying so costs us money, but it is the honest answer. If the paper is already in English, what you want is editing, not translation, and editing is priced lower. Send us the reviewer's comment along with the paper. If the complaint is about grammar and flow, editing fixes it. If the reviewer is saying they cannot follow your argument, no amount of language work will help, and your co-authors need to look at the structure first.

Yes, and a different person does it, someone who has not seen your original. That is the only way the check means anything. Where the two versions drift apart, we sit down with you and work out whether the wording moved or the source was simply unclear to start with. It costs extra and it adds days, so it is not worth it on an abstract. On a dossier or a patent family, plenty of teams think it is money well spent.

Yes, free with the job. It is a short signed letter naming the paper, the date and who worked on it, which is what most journals mean when they ask. One thing worth knowing: the letter covers the version we handed back. If your co-authors then rewrite three paragraphs, that letter no longer describes the file you are submitting. Send the final version back to us and we will reissue it.

That is what the term list is for, and it is why we will not skip it even when a deadline is tight. Every project starts from your saved list, and any new term is added only after you approve it. On a big job split between two people, one of them owns the list and the other follows it. If you have older translated files, send those too. We will pull your existing wording out of them so nothing changes for readers who already know your work.