A journo’s changed perception on GMOs
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY MUHAMMAD LUQMAN Decades of unscientifically proven facts on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) issued by green pressure groups and global anti-GMO organisations – have generally created a negative world view of one of science’s most advanced technology. How such campaigns and bad press affect the adoption of GMOs in countries like Pakistan and India is […]
USM collaborates with authorities to establish UNESCO heritage site at Sungai Batu
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY MAZLAN HANAFI BASHARUDIN Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) will continue to collaborate with the authorities towards making the Sungai Batu archaeological site in Sungai Petani, Kedah a UNESCO World Heritage site. The collaboration between USM and the Department of National Heritage (JWN) which started in 2007, has uncovered the Sungai Batu early civilisation site, with […]
Why do we have different blood types?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn 19000, Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner discovered there are three blood groups A, B, and O. It was a huge find and he won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it in 1930. A few years later researchers would discover the AB group. There are four main blood types. Blood type A is […]