Changing the game for future female visionaries in STEM
SCIENCE, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is indeed a flourishing field, but is it a promising field for the women involved in STEM? Statistics show only 29.3% of researchers worldwide are women. In engineering, it is 13% and only 26% of computer scientists are women. Enriching, enthralling and empowering summarises best the journey of seven […]
Diagnosing HPV via the DNA test
BY 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
BY 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 […]