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Malaysia is one of the major world pepper producer and 95% of its total pepper production comes from Sarawak. Pepper harvests produce a considerable amount of waste and efforts are taken at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak to turn this waste into pellets and have their potentials investigated.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals also including Combating muscle fatigue Ranking geo-engineering schemes

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating disease, gradually causing paralysis of the muscles in the hand and leg. The discovery by Koji Yamanaka and colleagues at the Brain Science Institute that the glial cells cause damage to the nerve cells shows great promise in the development of new treatments to prevent the progression of ALS.

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New research clarifies how cells rearrange from two-dimensional sheets into three-dimensional structures during embryonic development

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Researchers shed light on the molecular mechanism responsible for fluorescent and dark states of a genetically engineered protein

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