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Nature Publishing Group
22 Nov 2009
Bacterial skin care, Mismatch associated with graft-versus-host-disease, East Antarctic ice loss, High levels of HLA-C associated with slower HIV/AIDS progression, A stroke against stroke, Balancing European emissions, Assessing natural memory and An amplifier for terahertz waves
Universiti Sains Malaysia
20 Nov 2009
PENANG, 19 Nov. – Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) welcomes and supports the government’s initiative to enhance the country’s innovation through the setting up of the National Innovation Centre (MyNIC) which was announced by the Prime Minister, Dato’ Sri Mohd. Najib Tun Abdul Razak at the BioMalaysia 2009 Exhibition last Tuesday.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
20 Nov 2009
The MoU signing ceremony was held in conjunction with the launching of BioMalaysia 2009 from 17-19 November 2009 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
RIKEN
20 Nov 2009
On October 9, 2009, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the RIKEN Center of Research Network for Infectious Diseases (CRNID) held a one-day symposium entitled “Building an Africa-Asia Knowledge Network on Infectious Diseases” at the Marunouchi Building in Tokyo.
RIKEN
20 Nov 2009
Surprising complexity underlies the seemingly simple process of chromosome pair separation during cell division
RIKEN
20 Nov 2009
A fluorescent sensor helps scientists track specific chromosomal modifications that can alter gene activity
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
20 Nov 2009
This research studied the ways human brain responds to its environments to produce software.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
19 Nov 2009
The USM team returned home with seven Gold medals and one Special Award from the International Exhibition Of Ideas, Inventions and Innovation Trade Fair (IENA 2009) at Nuremberg, Germany recently.
Nature Publishing Group
19 Nov 2009
A cross-sectional survey shows that Hong Kong people are not keen on large-scale vaccination against swine flu unless it is free
Nature Publishing Group
19 Nov 2009
A novel vaccine can provide protection against swine flu for the majority of people between 12 and 60 years of age
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
19 Nov 2009
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) emerged first and second runner up in the National Writing Case Competition that carries the theme, Case Writing in Action : Dynamics Of Case Method.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
19 Nov 2009
Dr. Sharom Mahmud, 46, a Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) lecturer has successfully invented a varistor that is, a piece of equipment that protects circuits against excessive transient voltages due to lightning or thunder.
Nature Publishing Group
19 Nov 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers include Re-thinking obesity, 150 years on from On the Origin of Species, The global reach of Darwin and Underestimating interglacial temperatures
Nature Publishing Group
19 Nov 2009
The fraction of carbon dioxide emissions that is mopped up by terrestrial and marine sinks has probably decreased over the past 50 years.
Nature Publishing Group
19 Nov 2009
In Nature China this week - A multifunctional protein critically involved in signal transduction also plays an important role in the regulation of blood cell production during early development
Asia Research News
18 Nov 2009
PENANG, 12 Nov – The Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) research delegation returned home victoriously with seven Gold medals and one Special Award from the International Exhibition Of Ideas, Inventions and Innovation Trade Fair (IENA 2009) at Nuremberg, Germany recently.
Keio University
18 Nov 2009
With the aim, 'Promote developing excellent medicines, and quickly deliver them to patients all over the world' (ICH mission), we conduct various researches regarding new medicine development.
Keio University
18 Nov 2009
Challenger Series tournament (international men’s tournament) organized by students to be held
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
18 Nov 2009
Ramani Mayappan of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis, Malaysia studied the usage of solder connections and suggested how Sn-9Zn and Sn-8Zn-3Bi lead-free solders can be a potential replacement for the Sn-Pb solder.
Nature Publishing Group
15 Nov 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Medicine: Location, location, location, Understanding schizophrenia, Costing the Earth, Nitrogen fix for early Earth, Common genetic risk variants for Parkinson’s disease, Inducible microRNA sponges for intact organisms and Ouch, that hurts!
Nature Publishing Group
15 Nov 2009
Targeted sequencing of the protein-coding regions of the human genome has been used to identify the cause of a rare genetic disorder, as reported online this week in Nature Genetics.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
13 Nov 2009
PolyU and Dongguan Municipal Government will set up a working group and conduct feasibility study relating to the areas of education, research and training.
RIKEN
13 Nov 2009
The RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator Based Science held its second annual Nishina School between September 29 and October 8, 2009.
RIKEN
13 Nov 2009
Visualization of stress in the cell’s protein factory, the endoplasmic reticulum, may lead to new treatments for many debilitating diseases
RIKEN
13 Nov 2009
Experiments simulating zero-gravity conditions reveal developmental difficulties arising from mammalian reproduction in space
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
13 Nov 2009
Ramesh Nair of the Academy of Language Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia proposed that language should be accorded greater attention in the evaluation of gender construction in children’s literature or in any other literary texts produced for children.
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
13 Nov 2009
Researchers of UiTM have invented a method to obstruct gas flow in the 2-furnace CVD system to synthesize ZnO nanowires.
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
13 Nov 2009
Ibrahim bin Mohamed of the Faculty of Information Technology and Quantitative Sciences, UiTM, Malaysia researched to detect Outliers in Bilinear Time Series Model.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
11 Nov 2009
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) came out tops at the 2009 National Open Source Software Case Study Awards. USM also took second place at the 24-Hour Open Source Software Development Contest which was held in conjunction with the Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON) 2009
Nature Publishing Group
11 Nov 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Astronomy: Planetary clue to Sun’s depleted lithium. Cancer: Notch takes a knocking, Early Earth: Nice and cool, Chemistry: Snapshot reaction, Geology: Measuring melt migration in a model mantle and Neurons turn a blind eye