Look good, feel great
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI MAINTAINING your weight is more than how you look or the number you see on the scale. How you feel, and your overall health is so much more important. Excess body fat is associated with an increased risk of most major chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, […]
How does food affect your brain health?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI DO YOU KNOW that you can fix your brain to experience the best memory, productivity and sleep you have ever had? My goal here is to share with you the right thing to do. Let’s discover what moves the needle to get you better brain health. Food has a significant […]
Diagnosing HPV via the DNA test
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI VENGADESEN IF THERE is one cancer that can be eliminated completely from the face of the earth, it is cervical cancer. Imagine if 604,237 women globally could have been spared the painful experience of contracting this cancer and 341,843 lives saved. What is probably more painful than the cancer is […]
Sitting is Dangerous
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI ACCORDING to a survey that evaluated sedentary lifestyles, nine out of ten Malaysian spend more than half of their waking hours sitting (at least six hours a day) at their desk. Long, uninterrupted periods of sitting, whether you are sitting at a desk, behind the wheel, or in front of […]
Abuse of antibiotics takes us one big circle to square one
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY SADEQUR RAHMAN The story of the discovery of penicillin is enchanting. An overworked microbiologist goes on holiday, opens plates with bacteria growing on them, a spore (or seed) landing on the plates and then the observation on return from the holiday that the mould growing from the spore could kill bacteria. The purification and […]
REMDII Sensitive helps in healing eczema
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY AZMAN ZAKARIA A group of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) researchers have successfully developed a product to treat skin disorder or eczema without involving the use of steroids and managed to reduce itchiness, flaking and intensively repair despaired skin conditions within just two weeks. The product, a deep moisturising cream – REMDII Sensitive, is formulated […]
Forensic scientists recover human DNA from mosquitos
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Nagoya University research team shows that human blood extracted from mosquitos remains viable for DNA analysis up to two days after feeding. Most people would agree that painful mosquito bites are an especially annoying part of summer. Except perhaps forensic scientists, who can examine human blood from a mosquito’s stomach and match the DNA to […]
Researchers discover new method to control bacteria growth
Reading Time: 2 minutesA team of researchers at Princeton has discovered a new method to control bacterial growth through special coating surfaces that can instruct or prevent bacterial growth. This new technology adopts the natural concept of bacterial growth – a process called quorum sensing whereby microbes release biomolecules that can stop or trigger their growth. Manipulation of […]
Chocolates are more than just a snack treat
Reading Time: 2 minutesA balanced diet is chocolate in both hands – a phrase commonly used to justify ones chocolate snacking behaviour. A phrase now shown to actually harbour some truth, as the cocoa bean is a rich source of flavanols: a class of natural compounds that has neuroprotective effects. In their recent review published in Frontiers in Nutrition, […]
Accessing DNA in the cell’s powerhouse to treat disease
Reading Time: 2 minutesFOR the first time, a synthetic compound has been made that can bind to DNA in the cells’ energy powerhouses, suppressing a gene associated with nerve and muscle disease. Pyrrole-imidazole polyamides (PIPs) are compounds that can read specific DNA sequences inside living cells and silence dis-ease-causing genes. They prevent proteins, called transcription factors, from binding […]