Supercharged antibiotics could turn tide against superbugs
Reading Time: 2 minutesAN OLD drug supercharged by University of Queensland researchers has emerged as a new antibiotic that could destroy some of the world’s most dangerous superbugs. The supercharge technique, led by Dr Mark Blaskovich and Prof Matt Cooper from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), potentially could revitalise other antibiotics. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria – superbugs -cause 700,000 […]
Aspiring geoscientists get a peek into oil & gas industry
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo boost efforts to encourage students to pursue education and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc. provided future geoscientists with the exclusive opportunity to learn and exchange knowledge on the oil and gas industry during the Student Programme organised in conjunction with the Asia Petroleum Geoscience […]
Sugar blamed for obesity, diabetes epidemics
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE IDEA that sugar could be a fundamental cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics, with deleterious effects on the human body that go beyond just empty calories, should be considered seriously again, argues journalist and author Gary Taubes in The BMJ issued on Jan 3. In the midst of such a huge public […]
Officials from African and Asian Countries on study mission to UPM Innovation Ecosystem
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY AZMAN ZAKARIA SERDANG: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Geneva, together with Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PVR) and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), sponsored 21 senior officials from 15 Least Developed Countries (LDC’s) for a one week capacity building programme at Putra Science Park (PSP) in UPM to learn the successful innovation ecosystem […]
To find new biofuel enzymes, it can take a microbial village
Reading Time: 2 minutesBerkeley Lab-led study unveils new source of robust cellulases in compost A NEW study led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), demonstrates the importance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be used to convert plants to biofuels. […]
RM17b, 26,700 jobs in the pipeline
Reading Time: 2 minutesKUALA LUMPUR: As of December 2017, Malaysian Bioeconomy Development Corporation (Bioeconomy Corp) has captured 77 trigger projects under the Bioeconomy Transformation Programme (BTP), which are targeted to provide more than 26,700 job opportunities and cumulative approved investments of over RM17 billion in 2020. The organisation has also implemented 37 Bioeconomy Community Development Programme (BCDP) projects […]