Press releases

The 2nd World Baseball Classic excited everyone in Japan. The Japanese team, withstood the pressure of being the returning champions, and won the championship again. The article discusses the diplomatic role of baseball including being hosted by Major League Baseball, the idea of a baseball FIFA, The Japan-Korea matches and The Netherlands team.

Sazae-san, a four-frame manga popular throughout Japan, originally started in the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in 1951, and it continues today as a TV animation program.

The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) has recently organized a group of biotechnologists and chemical engineers to conduct scientific investigations in a bid to produce ethanol from so-called 3rd generation biofuel feedstocks.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Exoplanetary phases seen, Rethinking the war on cancer, Natural selection at the group level?, Super states, Mantle mixing model and Ancient immunity underestimated

In an exclusive News story this week, Nature reporter Geoff Brumfiel describes how ITER, the multi-billion-euro international fusion reactor, is likely to be far less ambitious in its early stages than scientists had hoped.

A transgenic line of monkeys carrying a gene encoding green fluorescent protein fully integrated into their DNA has been created for the first time. The research, published in Nature this week, marks the first such feat in non-human primates and paves the way for developing new models of human diseases.

The winning research include Multi-potent Drug removing Arginine from the blood and kill cancer cells; Life-cycle Health Monitoring of Massive Infrastructure; Energy-saving High Brightness LED Lighting; Ultrasonic Semiconductor Thin-die Bonding Platform; Smart Pressure Monitored Suit - Rebuild Body Contour

In Nature China this week - Goose liver tells a big fat story, Mimicking the potassium channel and The bliss of growth

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) won 6 gold medals, during the 20th Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX) in Kuala Lumpur recently.

The research by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) students has the potential to replace fractured or cracked human bone to 16 times the strength of the material that is currently available in the market.

This book will be of interest to researchers, decision-makers, policy advisors, and educators in science, technology, and innovation studies, as well as to development practitioners and professionals around the world.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include A mushroom mystery solved, Candida genome sequenced, No role for Snowball Earth in ancient extinction, Initiator of allergic responses, How do inhibitors activate kinases? and Targeting muscle disorders

Environmental conditions may determine which particular process plants will use to build an essential hormone

Enhancements to an experimental technique reveal novel magnetic materials

RIKEN researchers proposed a new pathway map for the differentiation of blood cells.

What is the mechanism that controls the growth of living organisms? Hiroshi Sasaki at RIKEN is attempting to probe the mechanism by focusing on special groups of cells called ‘signaling centers,’ which control the differentiation, proliferation, and migration of surrounding cells.

Every year on this day, prominent cultural figures are invited to RIKEN to give talks on their respective areas of expertise, bridging the world of science with the world of culture. This year RIKEN invited ceramicist Imaemon Imaizumi, the 14th in a long line of traditional craftsmen.

Part of the 6,500 hectare land grant property of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) straddling the provinces of Laguna and Quezon is currently being developed into tree farms for biofuel, timber and agroforestry enterprises.

The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) has received the prestigious Nikkei Asia Prize for Science, Technology and Innovation, in recognition of its contribution to environmental protection in the region.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Early Mars cold and wet?, Are you in charge of your weight?, Optical device records in 5D, Early microbes took some battering, How Down’s syndrome protects, DNA genie bottle assembles itself

In Nature China this week - Researchers in China have generated pluripotent stem cells from the Tibetan miniature pig.

Prof. Albert Chan of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Department of Building and Real Estate has been bestowed with the Innovation Achievers Award of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)'s International Innovation & Research Awards 2008/9.

The problem of disposing of plastics which is a major environmental issue will soon be resolved with the discovery that plastics can be recycled and turned into fuel.

19 May - Japanese researchers have shown that the metabolism used by cancer cells to create the energy necessary for proliferation could be the same or similar to the specific type of metabolism used by parasites such as roundworms in low-oxygen environments. These are the first such findings ever made worldwide.

Summaries of newsworthy papers The biology of ice, Gut acid levels determine healthy bones, Identifying problems in proteomics, Dopamine neurons are a mixed bunch, Natural products in reach, Interleukin 17—a Jekyll and Hyde of the immune system? and Gene variants to set your biological clock by

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) today received 5 Mindstorms NXT Lego kits worth RM 12 500 as a contribution from international software producer, National Instruments. The software is to be used in a special initiative by USM to create interest in the field of science, engineering and automated equipment among students

The town of Los Baños in Laguna has one to vouch for a cleaner future with the promising results of a research project currently done by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).

An international team of scientists have shown that deletion of the G-substrate gene in mice causes motor learning deficits during particular periods of postnatal development

Replacing hazardous solvents with water and improving efficiencies are ways that chemists can reduce the environmental impact of their reactions. RIKEN researchers have developed recyclable catalysts that selectively generate chiral organic molecules in water - a nearly ideal green chemical process.

Mincle, a protein expressed on immune cells, is a receptor that recognizes Malassezia fungal species and mediates inflammatory responses