Journal Online — Monitoring the health of marine environments is a laborious activity, but is essential for evaluating the success of reef protection and rehabilitation initiatives. A fish census commonly involves divers swimming along a transect line, usually marked by a plastic cord, and visually counting and identifying the fish species that they encounter. This painstaking process requires trained experts and highly knowledgeable divers to accurately record data on species, size, and abundance.

ASIA RESEARCH NEWS — Analyses of fossils and sediments from Tam Pà Ling (“Cave of Monkeys” in Lao) by an international team of scientists—including a Filipino researcher formerly from the University of the Philippines (UP) and currently at the Flinders University Microarchaeology Laboratory in South Australia—has pushed back the time when we know our species, Homo sapiens, was present in Mainland Southeast Asia. 

MANILA, Philippines — A scientist and her student from the University of the Philippines – Diliman (UPD) have discovered a gene connecting cases of breast cancer to stress, and irregularities in the body clock. Molecular biologist Dr. Pia Bagamasbad and her student, Weand Ybañez “discovered a gene called Krüppel-like factor 9 (KLF9) that suppresses tumor […]