Mexican entrepreneurs develop the world’s first animal cruelty-free leather
Reading Time: 2 minutesEVERY year more than a billion animals are slaughtered for their skins and hides to make clothing and accessories. Skin is ripped off from elephants, crocodiles, and snakes to make leather. Sheep are often beaten and mutilated to steal their wool and their skin for shearing. Goats are abused for cashmere and mohair. All these are […]
SMART researchers uncover new anti-phage defence mechanisms in bacteria
Reading Time: 2 minutesSINGAPORE: Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new anti-phage defence mechanism found in some bacteria, which uses previously unknown features to protect their DNA. The groundbreaking discovery enables scientists to overcome existing challenges in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. The growing antimicrobial resistance is a major concern […]
A grim scenario as ‘cousins’ of SARS-CoV2 stealthily circle the globe
Reading Time: 2 minutesSARS-CoV-2 is known to have mutated and different strains are going around the globe. In a recent preliminary study that has not been peer-reviewed, scientists have identified 14 mutations in Spike protein and counting. Spikes on a virus are responsible for binding and entry into host cells and is a major target of neutralising antibodies. The scientists […]