Press releases

In Nature China this week - Pigments preserved in fossilized organelles reveal the true colours of non-avian dinosaurs and extinct birds

Summaries of newsworthy papers: A potential new treatment for osteoporosis; Drivers of deforestation; Reprogramming with minicircles and Western Australian drought unique in 750 years?

A group of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) researchers successfully created a product called, Thymoquinone Rich Fraction (TQRF) an agent to aid the treatment of Alzheimer and cardiovascular Disease.

A science student from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) walked away with the Best Experimental Video/Film Award at the 7th Malaysian Students Film and Video Festival (FFVPM) held at 2020 Hall in Kangar, Perlis.

Call for Applications : 1 Assistant Professor Position (Non-tenured)

Keio Academy of New York, situated in a nature-filled campus on the outskirt of Manhattan, will be celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Since its creation in 1970, IDRC has helped researchers in developing countries find new ways to improve health, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and promote democracy. Forty years later, IDRC continues to fund innovative research and knowledge that works.

The Apex agenda is not a matter that can be postponed although there are many challenges ahead.

The smart parnership between Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) is expected to put in place a new mechanism for road safety and the prevention of accidents.

In line with its mission of knowledge sharing, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) today introduced the ‘I-Teacher’, to help school students in their learning process.

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute are developing a highly efficient system to create mouse model lines that could dramatically advance genetic research on the most common mental retardation.

Cutting-edge imaging technology shows that monkeys’ brains grow as they learn to use tools

A finely tuned rare-earth metal catalyzes the exact interactions needed for site-selective molecular synthesis

New Publication: Mapping Study on Excellent Researchers from Southeast Asia

Her research is on “Anti-Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Activity of Euphorbiaceae Leaves Extract”

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, is seeking nominations for the 2010 Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize.

Press Release - Researchers at RIKEN and Fukuoka University have pinpointed the mechanism responsible for early rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cells in the treatment of type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: An exoplanet's atmosphere probed from the ground, ‘Missing DNA’ link to obesity, Smells like a human, Protein marks malarial proteins for export, Signalling pathway crucial for cancer stem-cell survival, The quantum glow of photosynthesis, A more complex role for RAF inhibitors

Date:1-3 December 2010 Location : Hilton Kuching Hotel, Sarawak, MALAYSIA Contact : [email protected]

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The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) has launched a new logo to mark its silver jubilee celebrations this year.

In conjunction with this, a logo specially designed to mark the Institute’s 25 Anniversary celebrations this year was unveiled by Director General Dato’ Dr Abd Latif Mohmod.

TWOWS is now accepting nominations of excellent young women scientists from throughout the developing world

TWAS 2010 Prizes will be awarded to individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least ten years, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to knowledge in eight fields of science

The 2010 prize will be given for outstanding achievements in: Renewable Energies for Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Technologies.

Researchers Chin-Ying Liew, Kien-Kheng Foo, Elinda Ai-Lim Lee and Kelvin Tee-Hiong Goh studied the types of systems-thinking skills used by 233 students in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities to solve non-routine problems.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Geoscience: Volcanoes implicated in ancient ocean oxygen depletion

The Asia-Oceania Forum for Synchrotron Radiation Research (AOFSRR) held its third school from November 2 to 11 at SPring-8, the world-largest synchrotron radiation facility located at the RIKEN Harima Institute.

Molecular fluorescence applied in an unconventional way allows the life-sustaining chemical reactions in genes to be observed in real time