Biogenes – home-grown diagnostic kit maker hits major milestones
Reading Time: 5 minutesBY DR MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI VENGADESEN THE pandemic changed a company’s playing field from developing aptamers or synthetic antibodies for animal healthcare to biosensors for Covid-19. What is unique is these aptamers are not designed in the wet laboratories but using computer modelling that could be downloaded by anyone and printed for validation in […]
Webinar : Merdeka daripada Covid-19
Reading Time: < 1 minute“Adakah varian baharu COVID-19 yang lebih berbahaya bakal menular?” “Adakah varian Delta kalis vaksin?” “Bilakah kita boleh merdeka daripada Covid-19?” Semua ini dan banyak lagi bakal dijawab oleh Penasihat Kebangsaan Penyakit Berjangkit Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia, Datuk Dr Christopher Lee pada sesi FB Live Science Media Centre Malaysia yang bakal bersiaran pada Sabtu, 28 Ogos 2021 […]
Medika Natura’s Bioactive from Kacip Fatimah gets USFDA nod as a New Dietary Ingredient
Reading Time: 5 minutesBY DR MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI MALAYSIA has one of the oldest rainforests in the world and is globally well renowned as a tropical biodiversity hub. The country hosts hundreds of species of medicinal plants with a trove of indigenous knowledge on how to use these healing greens as a natural panacea. One of Malaysia’s […]
Touted as clean, ‘blue’ hydrogen may be worse than gas, coal
Reading Time: 2 minutesITHACA, N.Y: “Blue” hydrogen – an energy source that involves a process for making hydrogen by using methane in natural gas – is being lauded as a clean, green energy to help reduce global warming. But Cornell and Stanford University researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel. The carbon footprint […]
NIAID warns about more dangerous COVID-19 variant
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIF the COVID-19 cases surge continuously in the US during the fall and winter, it is more likely that an even more deadly strain of the virus would evolve and could evade the current vaccines available. This is according to Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the US. […]
More than one in ten COVID-19 patients infected in hospital in first pandemic wave
Reading Time: 2 minutesMORE than one in ten COVID-19 patients in 314 UK hospitals caught the infection in hospital during the first pandemic wave say researchers conducting the world’s largest study of severe COVID-19. The research into hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) was led by Dr Jonathan Read from Lancaster University with colleagues from other UK universities including the Universities […]
IPCC Report: Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released on August 9, 2021, reveals that many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion—such as continued sea level rise—are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of […]
Filipino Policymakers, Lawyers Tackle Genome Editing
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE opening of the Biotech Outreach Program for the Philippines kicked off with two webinars specifically intended for policymakers and the judicial branch of the Philippine government. The objective was for the participants to learn and share knowledge about the acceptance of biotechnology in the country, specifically genome-edited crops, for the improvement of the agricultural […]
Experts propose measures to achieve full potential of agricultural biotechnology in Africa
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAFRICA’S crop production remains low and this is a threat to their food security. In response, a group of researchers presented a review that details their recommendations for Africa to maximize the benefits of biotechnological innovations in terms of agricultural productivity, medical advancement, and environmental and biological benefits. Their objective was to show the dynamics of the […]
The Unique Properties of Mushrooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI Have you ever wondered how unique the small insignificant mushrooms that always become the side dish in your daily meal? Since human civilization began, fruiting bodies of mushrooms have been used as food not only due to their unique texture and flavours but also for their nutritional properties. I have […]