Is Malaysia ready to face agri challenges through gene technologies?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIN RECENT months Malaysians have been experiencing a spike in vegetable prices, some more than 100 per cent. For an example, the price of tomatoes has gone up from RM3 per kg to RM6. Although there are multiple factors that influence price of food crops, one reason is the low farm production. Our golden crop, […]
PCR inventor, Nobel laureate Kary Mullis dies
Reading Time: 2 minutesNOBEL LAUREATE Kary Mullis died on Aug 7 of pneumonia at the age of 74 in Newport Beach, California. He won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for copying and amplifying DNA. Mullis invented the PCR method in 1983 as a chemist at Cetus Corporation. […]
KL hosts landmark conference on Pseudomonas
Reading Time: 3 minutesKUALA LUMPUR : The 17th International Conference on Pseudomonas was hosted here for the first time. The five-day conference was attended by 200 exceptional scientists from 31 countries with the most novel and intriguing research on Pseudomonas. Co-hosted by the Academic Nexus for Global Scholastic Activities (Angsa) and the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (Mabic), the […]
Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang
Reading Time: 2 minutesDARK matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe’s mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. What exactly it is and how it came to be is a mystery, but a new Johns Hopkins University study now suggests that dark matter may have existed before the Big Bang. […]