Odd and Strange Plant Relatives
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HAR-GO, board game to implement food safety system
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY AZMAN ZAKARIA SERDANG: in Researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) have successfully developed HAR-GO Board (HACCP Ready Go), a HACCP board game based on the classic Monopoly game, for the implementation of a food safety management system. HACCP or Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System is an internationally recognised food safety management system […]
Making education flexible and future-ready for Malaysians
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY MAZLAN HANAFI BASHARUDIN MALAYSIANS would now have greater access to education as they prepare to join the workforce in the era of Industry 4.0. Recently, the Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia held a Seminar on Flexible Education 2019 in Putrajaya. It was organised together with the Higher Education Department and Malaysia Qualifications Agency (MQA). […]
Farmers have choice to grow GM
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE MARSHALL Liberal Government has recently announced farmers on mainland South Australia will be given the choice to plant Genetically Modified (GM) food crops next season. The decision to lift the Genetically Modified Food Crops Moratorium on mainland South Australia, but retain it on Kangaroo Island, follows recommendations from a high-level independent review undertaken by […]
Revolutionising the CRISPR method
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTO DATE, for the most part, researchers could modify only one gene at a time using the CRISPR method. On occasion, they managed two or three in one go; in one particular case, they were able to edit seven genes simultaneously. Now, Professor Randall Platt and his team at the Department of Biosystems Science and […]
BORIS FOR BIOTECH …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists see positive side on GM and genetic technologies regulation, after new UK PM Boris Johnson’s comments (“…let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world…”) in his first speech as prime minister.
Sengenics – the functional proteomics company serving a niche market
Reading Time: 2 minutesSengenics is a functional proteomics company that leverages its patented KREX™ technology for production of full-length, correctly folded and functional proteins. KREX™ was developed at Cambridge University in the UK and subsequently acquired and commercialised by Sengenics. Established in 2008, Sengenics has three fully equipped state-of the-art proteomics labs and offices in Malaysia, Singapore and […]
Voters want a ‘science-type’ presidential candidate
Reading Time: 2 minutesA LARGE majority of Iowans (74 percent) say it is important for the presidential candidates to talk about how science and scientific research will affect their policymaking decisions, but only 22 percent recall them discussing science issues during the past two months. The Iowa Science Survey, jointly conducted by Research!America and Science Debate, surveyed 802 […]
Can “biodegradable” plastics solve plastic pollution?
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NEW DRUG TARGET FOR MULTIPLE TUMOURS…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA research team headed by scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at UC San Diego has identified an enzyme involved in remodelling the plasma membrane of multiple cancer cell types that is critical to both survival of tumours and their uncontrolled growth. The finding, […]