Plants Communicate by Sniffing Each Other’s Aromas

One-fifth of the world’s total crop production is destroyed by insects annually. Hitting the temperate zones hardest, climate change worsens the condition. Despite the fact that plants seem defenseless because they cannot escape from their enemies but they can deter insects by the deployment of chemical toxins. Certain toxins usually function by making the plant taste bitter, inhibiting herbivorous insects’ digestive enzymes, and disrupting...

Who Doesn’t Want to Get Smarter by Taking a Pill?

The idea of using a pill that boosts your brainpower might seem pretty appealing. Using medicinal combinations and pills to get smarter is a centuries old practice which has seen a rising trend in last decades. Nootropics or so-called “smart drugs” are any supplements that potentially improve or alter a person’s cognitive performance and executive function, including memory, decision-making, and creativity. There are three broad categories...

Plastic Can Turn into Vanilla Flavoring

It is estimated the global demand for vanilla is growing due to the vanilla flavoring of food stuff. Vanillin is a highly desirable chemical widely used in the food and cosmetics industries, pharmaceutics, cleaning products, and herbicides. Vanilla traditionally comes from the extract of vanilla beans but in fact, 85% of the world\'s vanilla production is currently derived from fossil fuels. Among a lot of plastic bottles which are sold every...

Science Serving the Humanity: A Discovery Saved Lives of 70+ Million People

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) accounts for hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver transplantation. Hepatitis is the inflammation of liver causing live damage leading to the liver failure. In 1970s, novel causes of hepatitis were being studied and two viruses, called Hepatitis A (HAV) and Hepatitis B (HBV) were discovered. Both A and B types were found less dangerous but there were many patients with fatal type of liver...

Male seahorses and pipefishes can get pregnant!

Male seahorses and pipefishes can become pregnant and give birth. As part of a project called MALEPREG, Dr. Olivia Roth from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) in Germany is studying syngnathids, a fish family including seahorses, pipefish, and seadragons, to understand the evolution of pregnancy. There are three different types of pregnancy in syngnathids. In initial forms, the eggs stick to the male body and then are...

Can we program plants to produce vaccines?

Molecular farming is the basic idea to genetically modify or program plants in order to produce useful biomolecules such as vaccines for us. Cultured proteins could use as medicine for the treatment of many diseases, including diabetes. One of the most common ways of culturing proteins is utilizing bio-machinery of organisms like bacteria and other mammalian cells, such as the Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) to use nucleic acid code as a pattern for...

Role of International Students in Community Development

The world becomes a global hub when international students from all over the globe travel to the foreign land with an aim to exchange educational and academic excellence and to promote their diverse cultural backgrounds. After tourism, the exchange of students through scholarships and global exchange programs play a major role in the development of community building and cultural promotion. Let us have a brief outlook of international...

طراحی اپلیکیشن راهنمای گردشگری شهر قدیمی لاهور توسط دانشجویان پاکستانی

دانشجویان LUMS برنامه ای را توسعه می دهند که از آن می توان به عنوان راهنمای گردشگری در شهر قدیمی لاهور استفاده کرد. دانشجویان دانشگاه علوم مدیریت لاهور (LUMS) یک برنامه کاربردی هوشمند برای تلفن های هوشمند طراحی کرده اند که تورهای راهنمای گردشگری در شهر...

اعتبار 84 میلیون دلاری بانک مجارستان در خدمت شرکت های پاکستانی و مجارستانی

در راستای توسعه مشارکت اقتصادی پاکستان و مجارستان، دو کشور توافق کردند که یک خط اعتباری 84 میلیون دلاری در بانک مجارستان برای همکاری بین شرکت های پاکستانی و مجارستانی ایجاد نمایند. وزیر امور خارجه و تجارت مجارستان، Péter Szijjártó  در اولین دیدار رسمی...

دختر پاکستانی 4 ساله، مجوز حرفه ای مایکروسافت را دریافت می کند

یک دختر پاکستانی نخبه از کراچی، در سن 4.5 سالگی به یک مهندس حرفه ای معتبر مایکروسافت تبدیل شده است. این موفقیت او را وارد لیست پاکستانی های موفقی می کند که در سنین جوانی گواهینامه MCP را بدست آورده اند. این دختر پاکستانی 4 ساله توانست امتحان مجوز حرفه ای...