How does food affect your brain health?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI DO YOU KNOW that you can fix your brain to experience the best memory, productivity and sleep you have ever had? My goal here is to share with you the right thing to do. Let’s discover what moves the needle to get you better brain health. Food has a significant […]
Tech boost for Malaysia’s agarwood industry
Reading Time: 3 minutesIN LINE WITH the growing digitalisation trend driving Agriculture 4.0, Malaysia’s leading Agarwood plantation company, DAdvance Agarwood Solutions Sdn Bhd (DAAS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently with Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) to implement cloud-based digital solutions within the Agarwood sub-industry. The collaboration also features XTS Technologies Sdn Bhd. – a robotics solution and […]
Four Malaysians awarded by the British Council for their success at the UK Alumni Awards
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe British Council yesterday announced the recipients of the Study UK Alumni Awards 2021-2022 in Malaysia at The Majestic Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. In total, 15 UK alumni in Malaysia were recognised for their outstanding achievements as business professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, and for their contribution to making a positive contribution to their communities, professions, […]
Diagnosing HPV via the DNA test
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI VENGADESEN IF THERE is one cancer that can be eliminated completely from the face of the earth, it is cervical cancer. Imagine if 604,237 women globally could have been spared the painful experience of contracting this cancer and 341,843 lives saved. What is probably more painful than the cancer is […]
Sitting is Dangerous
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI ACCORDING to a survey that evaluated sedentary lifestyles, nine out of ten Malaysian spend more than half of their waking hours sitting (at least six hours a day) at their desk. Long, uninterrupted periods of sitting, whether you are sitting at a desk, behind the wheel, or in front of […]
Celebrate The Difference: Women in STEM Webinar 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE BRITISH COUNCIL Scholarships for Women in STEM to support women wishing to pursue postgraduate study in science, technology, engineering or maths at a university in the UK is now open for application. This unique scholarship is aimed at women with a background in STEM, who can demonstrate their need for financial support and who […]
Local researchers proposed superpowered microalgae for wastewater treatment
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY AISHWURIYA KUNASHANKAR & SAARANI VENGADESEN WHAT do you get when you put a bioplastic expert, a microalgae specialist, and a cancer researcher together? A Marimo. Read further to know how a multidisciplinary team is moving from the concept stage to a proposed sustainable plan that can play a role in reducing environmental footprint. The Petri […]
Energy management comes before time management
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI ONE of the most frequently asked questions to me is, ” How can you complete so many tasks successfully in a short time?” “Is there any secret in your time management?” I smiled and answered: “Yes, the secret in time management is energy management”. Yes, energy is everything. When it comes […]
Zika vaccine shows promising results in preclinical studies
Reading Time: 2 minutesA ZIKA VIRUS VACCINE candidate is effective at preventing the Zika virus passing from mother to fetus in preclinical animal studies, according to a new study in the journal npj Vaccines. The research is a collaboration between Trudeau Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute’s Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC), and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), where […]
US Supports Further Research of Bt Eggplants in Bangladesh, Philippines
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCORNELL UNIVERSITY announced that it received an award grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to continue the efforts to bring genetically engineered (GE) eggplant varieties to farmers in Bangladesh and the Philippines. USAID has provided Cornell’s Feed the Future Insect-Resistant Eggplant Partnership a grant amounting to US$10 million as part of the Feed the Future initiative by the […]