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Nerdy Science Blog

http://science.kukuchew.com

A group of nerds who are passionated in science write about science.

Added on: Aug 27th, 2007
Country: Malaysia
Language: English

Author: Wong Teck Jung
Listed in: Science Health
Tags: science blog health biotechnology nerdy nerd

Recent Posts

GIANTmicrobes Launched Seven New Microbes for Christmas Presents

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 07:56 in bird flu, General, yogurt, nerve cell, microbe, plush dolls, amoebas, platelet, brain cell, swine flu, giantmicrobes

Getting Christmas presents for your scientist colleagues may be a hard decision-making process. You are not only need to be creative, but also need to have intellectual humorous includes in your gifts. GIANTmicrobes has just launched seven brand ne...
Three Oil Palm Genomes Sequenced Completely

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 05:04 in Palm, General, biofuel, genome, sequence, palm oil, sequencing, mpob, epigenetic, oil palm, malaysian palm oil board, elaeis guineensis

Palm oil is the world most consumed edible oil. Palm oil is also used as important source of biofuel. The Genome of oil palms, the plant that produces palm oil, had been sequenced by consortium led by Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Orion Genomic...
Curly Hair Gene Identified by Australian Scientists

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 04:50 in General, hair, genetics, curly, curly hair, american journal of human genetics, queensland institute of medical research, curly hair gene, hair morphology, trichohyalin gene

Trichohyalin gene is known for hair production and development. Scientists from Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia, analyzed collected data from 5000 twins and found the same gene is responsible for curly hair. The scientists hav...
Malaysian Researcher Wins Japanese Award

Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 16:49 in japan, General, sabah, award, ums, frim, maff, universiti malaysia sabah, dr kevin ng, forest research institute malaysia, japan international award, japan international award 2009

A young researcher Dr Kevin Ng from Sabah, Malaysia has won the Japan International Award 2009 for Young Agricultural Researchers at University of Tokyo, Japan. The award was presented by Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (MAFF...
Kiss to Spread Germs

Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 22:31 in pregnancy, General, pregnant, kissing, kiss, immunity, germ, medical hypotheses, cytomegalovirus, dr colin hendrie

According to Dr Colin Hendrie who wrote in the journal Medical Hypotheses, man passed a bug named Cytomegalovirus to woman through kissing to build up immunity against it. Cytomegalovirus can be found in saliva and it is harmless normally. However...
Romantic Sperm

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 02:27 in Romance, humour, General, egg, romantic, sperm fertility

There are billions of sperms but only one sperm is allowed to fertilize egg. ...