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How Vaccines Work ?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWHEN a bacteria or virus (pathogen) enters our body, they are seen as foreign entities. Our immune system feels threatened. They start recognizing specific structures of the pathogen. Our body starts making antibodies that will bind to these structures. The antibody and the structure in the pathogen bind together like a key and lock. The pathogen […]

Sunway FutureX: Future Proofing Malaysian Enterprises and Talent

Reading Time: 3 minutesSunway Group has become synonymous with sustainable development. Education is known to be its chairman, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah’s strong passion and life goals. Second to education is sustainable development. How Sunway University has creatively combined its chairman’s two strong passion is what Matt van Leeuwen, Sunway Group chief innovation officer and Sunway iLabs director […]

The Health Benefits of Coconut-Based Products and Development of the Industry

Reading Time: 4 minutesBY ASVEENE CHANDRAN  and  CH’NG SOO EE, PhD Authors are attached to CAIQTEST (China Academy of Inspection and Quarantine) Innovation Malaysia Service Center COCONUT oil and its derivatives are making a comeback with strong testimonies from consumers. This not only dispels previous myths that the oil is unhealthy but is also driving a robust market […]

Adakah pokok tidur?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteKebanyakan organisma mengikuti corak siang dan malam untuk melakukan aktiviti mereka dan tidur. Bagaimanakah dengan pokok? Pokok tidur juga?  Di Austria terdapat sekumpulan saintis yang membuat kajian untuk menyiasat corak tidur tumbuhan dengan menggunakan titik laser pengimbas awan. Hasil kajian tersebut menunjukkan yang pokok tidur juga! Mereka telah menggunakan dua batang pokok birch perak yang […]

Revisiting the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918

Reading Time: 2 minutesBY TAN MIN MIN HERE is a book, a non-fiction about the flu pandemic of 1918 in the US by John M. Barry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. It was recommended by Bill Gates in his blog GatesNotes. [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] Unlike the current COVID-19 […]

Drug to treat yellow fever developed in Singapore

Reading Time: 3 minutesAN engineered monoclonal antibody treatment designed to treat people infected with the yellow fever virus has shown success in early stage clinical trials in Singapore. Scientists from Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) an interdisciplinary group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)  have developed TY014, a potential treatment for the largely tropical mosquito-borne disease. The […]

Scientists record rapid carbon loss from warming peatlands

Reading Time: 3 minutesSCIENTISTS at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a direct relationship between climate warming and carbon loss in a peatland ecosystem. Their study published in AGU Advances provides a glimpse of potential futures where significant stores of carbon in peat bogs could be released into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. Peatlands currently cover […]

COVID-19 may cause deadly blood clots

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCOVID-19 may increase the risk of blot cots in women who are pregnant or taking estrogen with birth control or hormone replacement therapy, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrinology. One of the many complications of COVID-19 is the formation of blood clots in previously healthy people. Estrogen increases the chance […]