The need for good toilet science
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN AS we live in the era of Industry 4.0 (IR4.0), IoT, cloud computing, 5G, gene drive and synthetic biology – in some parts of the world and quite pointedly in Asia and Africa, domestic and public sanitary systems remain derelict, dirty and disgusting. Today, November 19, is World Toilet Day. This specified […]
Moving but nowhere to go
Reading Time: 3 minutesMANY INSECTS moving north in response to climate change find they have nowhere to go in Britain’s intensively managed landscapes, according to new research. Since the 1970s, insects in the warmer half of Britain have been flying, hopping and crawling northwards at an average rate of around five metres per day. Landscapes that were once […]
Queen is first woman chancellor of IIUM
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah could not hold back her tears when she was proclaimed as the second Constitutional Head (Chancellor) of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). With this historic proclamation, Tunku Azizah (pix), 59, becomes the first woman to be appointed to the highest post in IIUM according […]
How cancer and immune cells communicate
Reading Time: 2 minutesCELLS can’t text each other the way we can, but they can still communicate. One way they send each other messages is through exosomes — tiny, spherical “packages” of information they emit. David Klinke, a researcher with the West Virginia University School of Medicine and Cancer Institute, is deciphering the contents of exosomes that cancer […]
Cancer knocks out M’sia’s last surviving Sumatran rhino
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE last surviving Sumatran rhino in the country succumbed to cancer on Nov 23. With the death of Iman at the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary, the species is now extinct in Malaysia. “It is with great sadness that the Sabah Wildlife Department announces the death of Iman, the last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, at 5.35pm on […]
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Gimme six! Researchers discover ayeaye’s extra finger
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE WORLD’S weirdest little primate has gotten even weirder, thanks to the discovery of a tiny extra digit. A study led by researchers from North Carolina State University has found that ayeayes possess small “pseudothumbs” — complete with their own fingerprints — that may help them grip objects and branches as they move through trees. […]
Soybean – The kingmaker in feed technology and animal nutrition
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Conference – a convergence of nutrition and biosecurity The conference saw a convergence of scientists, feed millers and formulators, animal nutritionists, veterinarians, quality control personnel and livestock producers. Avian Influenza (AI) and African Swine Flu (ASF) took centre stage at this conference as the latter is threatening farmers in Asian countries. So […]
Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints
Reading Time: 2 minutesCONTRARY to popular belief, cartilage in human joints can repair itself through a process similar to that used by creatures such as salamanders and zebrafish to regenerate limbs, researchers at Duke Health found. Publishing online Oct. 9 in the journal Science Advances, the researchers identified a mechanism for cartilage repair that appears to be more […]
Beating ganoderma with bio-degrader fungi
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY LAZIANA AHMAD PLANT PATHOLOGISTS with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) have recently innovated a technology to accelerate the degradation of oil palm trunk and root mass especially those infected with the basal stem rot (BSR) disease. The technology was recently launched during the Transfer of Technology Seminar and Exhibition 2019. The research team […]