HEMOR repels mosquitoes, doubles as house ornament
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY AZMAN ZAKARIA SERDANG: Not only it chases mosquitoes away, HEMOR (Sustainable Herbal Mosquito Lamp Repellent), a device invented by a team of researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), is also a form of ornament which can inject interesting and exciting elements into a house. The aroma that it releases is refreshing to humans but […]
The “Global Virome Project” initiative and its hunt for deadly viruses
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY ANDREJA GREGORIC An international team of scientists set in motion the “Global Virome Project” to prevent the next viral pandemic. The main goal is to hunt down potentially deadly viruses in animal populations before they jump species and infect humans. An estimated 1.6 million viral species are likely yet to be discovered in mammal […]
INBIOSIS- CFF collaborate to ensure food and national security
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBY ASMAHANIM AMIR SEMENYIH: Institute of Systems Biology (INBIOSIS), UKM is working hand-inhand with Crops For the Future (CFF) to ensure the sustainability of crops and food security, through research. UKM Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Prof Dr Hj Mohd Ekhwan Toriman said the research will focus on nutritional value chains for dietary diversification […]
NEW FORM OF ELECTRONIC MATTER…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteResearchers have produced a “human scale” demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics. These are the first experimental findings to validate this theory. The researchers report their findings in the journal Nature. The team’s work with QTIs was born out of the decadeold understanding […]
UKM rice-es to the need
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY ASMAHANIM AMIR SEMANGGOL, PERAK: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) has produced a new variety of high quality white rice that is durable, through a new innovation process involving cross breeding wild rice species and local rice species for the first time in Malaysia. That process is cross breed process between local high quality rice namely Oryza […]
Bent on finding a cure for cancer
Reading Time: 4 minutesLocally and internationally, Prof Teo Soo-Hwang is well known as a cancer researcher and has received many accolades for her untiring work in this area of science. Recently she took time off to share with our journalist SHAMIRA SHAMSUDDIN on her long journey to becoming a world recognised science researcher and CEO of Cancer Research […]
A NEW KIND OF CHIMERIC
Reading Time: < 1 minuteResearchers have produced sheep-human hybrid embryos that could one day represent the future of organ donation – by using body parts grown inside unnatural, engineered animals. “The contribution of human cells so far is very small. It’s nothing like a pig with a human face or human brain,” stem cell biologist Hiro Nakauchi from Stanford […]
Pushing mosquito genetics away from blood meals
Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE value of being able to force disease-carrying mosquitoes away from biting human or animals is almost immeasurable. Diseases such as malaria, dengue, and Zika affect hundreds of millions of people annually due to female mosquitoes requiring nutrient-rich blood to support their developing eggs. However, there already exists a mosquito species called Wyeomyia smithii in […]
Asteroid ‘time capsules’ may help explain how life started on Earth
Reading Time: 2 minutesIN popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs- and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral mining. But for researcher Nicholas Hud, asteroids play an entirely different role: that of time capsules showing what molecules originally existed in our solar system. Having that information gives scientists the […]
Teach integrity and responsibility in research
Reading Time: 2 minutesBANDAR SUNWAY: Minister of Higher Education, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh, represented by Datuk Dr Mary Yap Kain Ching, called for research in Malaysia to be pursued with integrity and responsibility. He said researchers should adhere to the Malaysian Code of Responsible Conduct in Research which involves awareness and application of established professional norms and ethical […]