Choosing the Right Cooking Oil
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI Are you using the right cooking oil for cooking your healthy meal for yourself and your loved one? There are several choices we have in the market. With the bombardment of the advertisements, are you falling into the trap of the unhealthy cooking oil that you still using? Let’s discover […]
Answering a century-old question on the origins of life
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in Japan to represent the evolution of chemistry into biology. They published their results on September 24 in Nature Communications. “Chemical evolution was first proposed in the 1920s as the idea that life first […]
Drugs that mimic effects of cigarette smoke reduce SARS-CoV-2’s ability to enter cells
Reading Time: 3 minutesRESEARCHERS have identified a potential reason why lower numbers of COVID cases have appeared amongst smokers compared to non-smokers, even as other reports suggest smoking increases the severity of the disease. Researchers have identified two drugs that mimic the effect of chemicals in cigarette smoke to bind to a receptor in mammalian cells that inhibits […]
Antibody cocktail therapy centre for mild Covid-19 patients opens in Sendai
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMIYAGI PREFECTURE and Tohoku University Hospital have set up an Antibody Cocktail Therapy Centre in Sendai. The treatment, which involves artificial monoclonal antibodies administered through an intravenous drip, is aimed at preventing patients with mild COVID-19 from becoming seriously ill. Doctors, nurses and pharmacists from Tohoku University Hospital and six other hospitals across the prefecture, […]
Breakthrough in vaccine against deadly antimicrobial-resistant pathogen
Reading Time: 3 minutesWHILE the Covid-19 pandemic is ongoing, another public health threat, antibiotic resistance, continues unabated. Microbiologists and chemists from two universities in Hong Kong recently made a breakthrough in synthesizing the first vaccine against one of the most deadly antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii). The vaccine shows good protection against the superbug in mice, indicating […]
First S’pore International Agri-Food Week kicks in, spearheads sustainable food production in Asia
Reading Time: 3 minutesAS the world looks beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be a renewed focus on innovative solutions to bolster food security and strengthen supply chains, so that economies can rebuild and emerge stronger. The pandemic saw the broken supply chain in the food sector right from the farmers to the consumers. Temasek, a Singapore-based global investment […]
L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science recognises five women researchers for pioneering work in environmental and life sciences
Reading Time: 3 minutesUNESCO and the L’Oréal Foundation are unveiling the winners of this year’s International Prize for Women in Science, which honours five eminent women scientists with exceptional careers from the five regions of the world, as it has done annually since 1998. The importance of science in meeting the major challenges facing us has become more […]