Topic: Tan Ee Lyn
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Plants and animals are shrinking because of warmer temperatures and lack of water, researchers said on Monday, warning it could have profound implications for food production in years ahead."The worst-case scenarios ... are that food crops and animals will ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have designed tiny beads that detected blood sugar levels when implanted in the ears of mice and they hope to eventually use this to replace more invasive techniques in people with diabetes.Laced with diboronic acid ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Researchers in India have developed a genetically modified potato that is packed with up to 60 percent more protein and increased levels of amino acids.In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday ...
<div><p>HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have designed a super-elastic iron alloy which they hope can be used in sophisticated heart and brain surgeries and even buildings in earthquake zones.</p><p>In a paper published on Friday in the ...
<div><p>HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have designed a super-elastic iron alloy which they hope can be used in sophisticated heart and brain surgeries and even buildings in earthquake zones.</p><p>In a paper published Friday in the journal ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two existing drugs used to treat osteoporosis may be effective in killing influenza viruses, including the new H1N1 swine flu and the H5N1 bird flu viruses, researchers in Hong Kong have found.The two drugs are pamidronate and zoledronate ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Japan have managed to grow fully functional teeth in adult mice using cells from an embryo, and they hope the same technology can be used to grow human organs in the future. "This therapy has the potential ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - People with a family history of depression, anxiety and alcohol and drug dependence are not only likely to develop these conditions, but tend to suffer more seriously and need more treatment, a study has found.In the nearly 30-year ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in China appear to have uncovered how nanoparticles which are used in medicine for diagnosis and delivering drugs may cause lung damage.Nanotechnology, or the science of the extremely tiny, is an important industry. One nanometer is one-billionth ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have identified a gene that appears to determine cyclical hair loss in mice and believe it may also be responsible for hair loss, or alopecia, in people.In a report published in the Proceedings of the ...