Monthly Archives: August 2018

THIS summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it....

BY JENNA GALLEGOS THE hot new gene editing technique CRISPR has been making headlines for its potential to treat or prevent diseases. But medicine isn’t...

BRISBANE: Eighteen APEC-member economies and five non-member economies met in Brisbane, Australia at the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology (APEC HLPDAB). The...

BY KRISTEN COYNE TALLAHASSEE, Fla: Scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) have discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests...

RESEARCH led by the World Mosquito Programme’s Director, Professor Scott O’Neill, for the first time an entire city has been protected from viral disease...

ACCORDING to several research studies, women live about five times longer than men. One of the answers lies in their biological nature. Oestrogen, the...

IT was an extremely busy month for us at Mabic and The Petri Dish. I attended the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Agribiotechnology...

SINTOK: Malaysians will soon be tasting two new rambutan varieties – Mutiara Merah and Mutiara Wangi which were the result of research by the...

SINCE the approval of Bt eggplant for “limited cultivation” in Bangladesh in 2013, ~17% of the total brinjal farmers in the country are already...

BY 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...