Category: Education
Gloves Sector: A helping hand for Malaysian gloves growth
Scarcity and viral infections may bring out the best and the worst in situations, but for Malaysia’s glove sector, it is the catalyst to its continued growth, says Angelica Buan. When the Covid-19 (new coronavirus disease) epicentre, Wuhan in Hubei, […]
Mainland China sees more than 100 new deaths from coronavirus over weekend
The Chinese National Health Commission reported on Monday that the COVID-19 death toll in mainland China reached 1,770 as of the end of Sunday – there were 2,048 new cases across mainland China, with more than 94% of the new […]
An infectious person estimated to pass the COVID-19 virus onto two others
The number of cases related to the COVID-19, or the Wuhan coronavirus, suggests that the virus can spread via human-to-human transmission through droplets, contact or fomites, similar to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) or the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome […]
US university scientists finds Ebola virus gene can kill stray brain cancer cells
Recently, there was an exciting breakthrough in the Ebola virus research at Yale University, Connecticut – a gene taken from the Ebola virus was found to selectively target and destroy glioblastomas, a type of aggressive brain tumour, in mice. Glioblastomas […]
Anti-inflammatory “switch” could stop chronic inflammation and reverse aging
While inflammation is the body’s natural defense against threats, prolonged inflammation may lead to diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, multiple sclerosis (MS), and Type-2 diabetes. However, a molecular “switch” could essentially turn off unnecessary inflammation, potentially reversing these conditions and,maybe, […]
German researchers collect kidney stem cells from urine to help with transplants
Kidney patients may be resigned to a transplant at some point, but the procedure is pretty invasive and donors are hard to come by. Recently, researchers from Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Germany, have discovered a non-invasive way to […]
Colour-changing smart bandage detects and treats bacterial infection
Prototypes of smart bandages include those that can change colour in response to heat, kill bacteria, monitor chronic wounds and deliver drugs on a schedule, but it still takes time to figure out if a particular infection is drug-resistant or […]
US team successfully reverses osteoarthritis in rats with experimental drugs
Ageing brings with it the gradual loss of damage repair/control of our bodies, so, intensely and often used tissues are prone to wearing out – this is commonly seen in osteoarthritis where joints become inflamed and painful to move. At […]
