Three steps towards a vibrant life
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI HAPPY New Year 2022! Very excited to meet you again right here in this new year. As I am sitting in front of my laptop to decide which topic I want to share with you this the very first month of 2022, I decided this is the one: Belief, Awareness, […]
Experts: Allow Golden Rice to save lives
Reading Time: < 1 minuteINTERNATIONAL experts expressed their support for vitamin-A enriched rice known as Golden Rice, which can prevent vitamin A deficiency (VAD) that kills millions of children in less-developed countries. Their opinion article is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Golden Rice offers a potent and cost-effective solution to […]
Political will and scientific community continue to move biotech adoption in Bangladesh
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE USDA FAS Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) released 2021 updates on the status of agricultural biotechnology in Bangladesh. The Government has shown willingness to adopt and implement a modern agriculture policy framework and guidelines, which support the safe and proper use of biotechnology and other technologies to address food security issues. Aside from the strong political will, […]
Lychee’s genome unveils its domestication history
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists from China and the United States assembled 15 pseudochromosomes of the genome of Feizixiao, a popular lychee cultivar, and revealed that the fruit was likely independently domesticated more than once in two different places in China. The study primarily unfolded the origin and domestication history of lychee by using Feizixiao as a reference genome and comparing […]
ISAAA launches Brief 56 – Breaking barriers with breeding: A primer on New Breeding Innovations for Food Security
Reading Time: 2 minutesAS modern biotechnology rapidly moves forward, ISAAA continues to share the latest cutting-edge biotechnologies to its network of stakeholders and beneficiaries with its most recent publication about new breeding innovations and their impact on global challenges. Breaking Barriers with Breeding: A Primer on New Breeding Innovations for Food Security (ISAAA Brief 56) is ISAAA’s most recent addition to its […]
Researchers in Japan invest mask that glows when exposed to Coronavirus
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA TEAM of scientists at Kyoto Prefectural University headed by its president, Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, has developed masks that glow when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light if they contain traces of the COVID-19 coronavirus, using antibodies extracted from ostrich eggs. In February 2020, the team injected an inactive and non-threatening form of the coronavirus into female ostriches, successfully […]
Report presents Africa’s growing hunger crisis
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported that the number of hungry people in Africa continues to increase due to conflict, climate change, and the economic slowdowns, including those triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The report was published in partnership with the African Union Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. […]
3M™ Molecular Detection System – An Innovative Solution for Foodborne Pathogen Detection
Reading Time: 5 minutesFOODBORNE pathogens remain a critical area of concern for both public health officials and the food industries across the world. According to World Health Organization, an estimated of 600 million or almost 1 in 10 people in the world, fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million […]
How to effectively free yourself from negative emotions ?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI HAVE you ever experienced situations that overwhelmed and stressed you up? If yes, what did you do effectively to help yourself to overcome these negative feelings? If you don’t know yet, interested to learn more about how you can immediately change your negative emotions to positive emotions? Let me share […]
Dragonflies likely migrate across the Indian Ocean
Reading Time: 2 minutesCAN dragonflies migrate thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean, from India via the Maldives to Africa, and back again? An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has used models and simulations to find out if the hypothesis could be true. In 2009, marine biologist Charles Anderson put forward a hypothesis after […]