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 new...

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 Genomics...

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 have...

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...

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 it...