The ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘why’ and safety profiles of vaccines – Webinar campaign says it all for the layman
Reading Time: 6 minutesBY SAARANI VENGADESEN THE biggest vaccination programme in Malaysian history is underway to possibly end the current pandemic. However, this does not mark the end of the pandemic yet. To date, only 26% of the population has registered in the “My Sejahtera” app for vaccination, while we need 80% of the population to be inoculated […]
Vaksin Jalan Penyelesaian Pandemik
Reading Time: 4 minutesOLEH KALAIARASAN SANGKAR VAKSIN Covid -19 yang paling dinantikan selama ini sudah tiba dan rakyat Malaysia yang memikul peranan sebagai barisan hadapan sudah pun mula menerima suntikan vaksin. Namun, masih banyak kekeliruan dan kesangsian tentang keberkesanan vaksin menular dalam kalangan orang ramai. “Orang ramai tidak perlu risau berapa efektif atau selamat vaksin yang dicipta dalam […]
Study Reveals SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans without much change
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA STUDY conducted by a collaboration between researchers in the UK, US, and Belgium shows that since December 2019 and for the first 11 months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there has been very little ‘important’ genetic change observed in the hundreds of thousands of sequenced virus genomes. Using HyPhy, a state-of-the-art analytical framework at Temple University, Philadelphia, […]
Webinar Kenali Vaksin Covid-19
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMari kenali secara asas mengenai vaksin-vaksin COVID-19. Terlalu banyak informasi yang kompleks dan saintifik di luar sana hingga menyebabkan ramai yang keliru dan kurang faham. Webinar ini bertujuan untuk berkongsi maklumat tentang vaksin secara tepat dan dalam bahasa yang mudah untuk fahaman semua. Ikuti webinar secara langsung bersama barisan pakar kami di FB Live Science […]
Fruits help boost immunity!
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY DASHNI ANBUARASU The whole world is affected by the ongoing global pandemic in today’s Covid-19 era. Though the ongoing vaccination programme around the world has brought a flicker of hope, it is good to boost one’s immune system and keep it strong to combat all forms of infections including the current Covid-19 menace. The […]
Made-in Malaysia vaccine? An urgent sigh of anticipation
Reading Time: 2 minutesDEMANDS for Covid-19 vaccines are outweighing supply with biotech companies struggling to increase production and more affluent countries stocking up their stock. It is against this scenario that Asian countries are scrambling to secure vaccines. Looks like it is time to shift our focus temporarily from food security to vaccine security. However, many Asian countries are waking up to this […]
Study of coronavirus variants predicts virus evolving to escape current vaccines
Reading Time: 3 minutesA NEW STUDY of the U.K. and South Africa variants of SARS-CoV-2 predicts that current vaccines and certain monoclonal antibodies may be less effective at neutralizing these variants and that the new variants raise the specter that reinfections could be more likely. The study was published in Nature on March 8, 2021. A preprint of the study was […]
COVID waste: Archaeologists have a role to play in informing environmental policy
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE 2020 COVID-19 pandemic is creating a viral archive, an archaeological record of history in the making. One aspect of this archive is increased environmental pollution, not least through discarded face-masks and gloves, collectively known as PPE, that characterise the pandemic. These items of plastic waste have become symbolic of the pandemic and have now entered […]
Cloth face masks that can be disinfected by the sun
Reading Time: 2 minutesDURING the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have become accustomed to wearing cotton face masks in public places. However, viruses and bacteria that stick to the mask could be transferred elsewhere when the wearer removes or touches it. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have developed a special type of cotton face mask that kills […]
Study Shows Climate Change May Have Driven Emergence of SARS-CoV-2
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA STUDY conducted by researchers from the University of Cambridge published in the journal Science of the Total Environment provides the first evidence of a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The study revealed large-scale changes in the type of vegetation in the southern Chinese […]