When skin cells go rogue: The onset of melanoma
Reading Time: 3 minutesMELANOMA is a deadly type of skin cancer due to its aggressive and therapy-resistant nature. An initial melanoma tumour is well known to break away and invade other organs in the body, a process known as metastasis. The evolution of melanoma occurs in five stages based on the Clark model (see accompanying image). The first […]
Fighting dengue with the Wolbachia warriors
Reading Time: 3 minutesSINCE recently, several nations have been battling the dengue menace using the Wolbachia-infused mosquitoes with remarkable success. Malaysia has now joined this league of nations with a soon-to-be launched pilot project using these special mosquitoes to fight dengue. The notorious Aedes aegypti which spreads the dengue and other viruses is reported to have killed hundreds […]
Why do we have food cravings?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCAN’T stop thinking about that bag of potato chips all day? Chocolate bar? Doughnuts? So why do we crave for the food we crave? What is the science behind food cravings? More often than not, food cravings are associated with one’s desire and emotional needs. For instance, carb cravings arise when we are stressed or […]
What is the resolution of human eye?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 576-megapixel resolution means that in order to create a screen with a picture so sharp and clear that you can’t distinguish the individual pixels, you would have to pack 576 million pixels into an area the size of your field of view. You only see high resolution in a very small area in the […]