Smallest ever Tylosaurus fossil sheds light on species
Reading Time: 2 minutesRESEARCH by a multi-institutional team, including two members from the University of Delaware, has revealed new details about the HIV virus capsid structure and how it develops. A capsid is a protein shell that encloses a virus’s genetic blueprint. The study, led by Cornell University scientists, was published Aug 1 in the journal Nature and […]
CEVA Sante Animale sets up first Asian partner lab
Reading Time: 2 minutesLAB- IND RESOURCE SDN BHD (LIR Biotech) is the “First Certified Partner Laboratory” of CEVA Santé Animale – a renowned veterinary pharmaceutical company based in Libourne, France. The LIR Biotech laboratory is also the “First External Laboratory” approved outside of Europe and the US. This makes it the first Asian partner laboratory of CEVA. Ruud […]
Boost for boiler industry
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY NOOR ESZEREEN JUFERI SERDANG: Universiti Putra Malaysia’s (UPM) Faculty of Agriculture has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Malayan Flour Mills Berhad as a prelude to the collaboration between Malayan Flour Mills Berhad and UPM. UPM Vice-Chancellor, Prof Datin Paduka Dr Aini Ideris said through the MoU, Malayan Flour Mills has agreed to […]
Cushioning impact of earthquakes
Reading Time: 2 minutesUPM researchers invent structural vibration absorber BY AZMAN ZAKRIA SERDANG: Researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) have successfully developed an innovative Structural Vibration Absorber Device which absorbs vibration caused by an earthquake and thus, prevents damage to buildings and reduces risk of death. The device is applicable to various types of buildings, including conventional buildings, […]
Water worlds could support life, study says
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening up the possibility that water worlds could be habitable, according to a new paper from the University of Chicago and Pennsylvania State University. The scientific community has largely assumed that planets covered in a deep ocean would […]
Sejauh manakah penyakit HFMD berbahaya kepada manusia?
Reading Time: < 1 minutePenyakit tangan kaki dan mulut atau HFMD berpunca daripada virus yang dikenali sebagai enterovirus meliputi Coxsackie Virus jenis A16 (Cox A16) dan Enterovirus 71 (EV71). Penularan penyakit atau virus HFMD adalah melalui sentuhan langsung dengan cecair hidung, air liur, lepuh (blister) dan najis kanak-kanak yang dijangkiti serta sentuhan pada permukaan dan alatan permainan yang tercemar […]
UPM introduces the Lekir car for Student Formula Japan 2018
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY IZUL ANNIQ SERDANG: The Putra Motorsport Team (PMT), Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) is introducing a latest car model, Lekir, to participate in the competition of Student Formula Japan 2018 this September. The team leader, a student of Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UPM, Ahmad Iffan Zailani, said that PMT […]
EU ruling on genome-editing unfavourable
Reading Time: 3 minutesIT was an extremely busy month for us at Mabic and The Petri Dish. I attended the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Agribiotechnology (APEC HLPDAB) in Brisbane and then the Southeast Asia-US Agricultural Cooperators Conference in Kota Kinabalu. Look out for the article on the latter event in the September issue of The Petri […]
Pathogens attack plants like hackers, so my lab thinks about crop protection like cybersecurity
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY JOHN HERLIHY PLANTS feed us. Without them we’re goners. Through thousands of years of genetic modification by selective breeding, humans have developed the crops that keep us alive. We have large kernels of grains, plump fruits and nutritious, toxin-free vegetables. These forms would never be found in nature, but were bred by people to […]
Study challenges evolution of how humans acquired language
Reading Time: 2 minutesA GENE implicated in affecting speech and language, FOXP2, is held up as a “textbook” example of positive selection on a human-specific trait. But in a paper in the journal Cell on Aug 2, researchers challenge this finding. Their analysis of genetic data from a diverse sample of modern people and Neanderthals saw no evidence […]