by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Jan 27, 2022 | Good School
The University of the Philippines Visayas-hosted Philippine Genome Center (PGC) has just received the country’s first set of Next-Generation Sequencers to enable the center for Whole Genome Sequencing to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants in the region. The sequencers...
by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra | Oct 9, 2020 | Good Balita
Two medicinal plants commonly found in the Philippines with properties that could potentially treat novel coronavirus patients were identified by a botanist of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). UPLB’s Dr. Lourdes B. Cardenas, a botany professor...
by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra | Sep 22, 2020 | Good Balita
The Philippines has seen decreasing and rising cases of coronavirus disease since it first hit the country in 2020. The end of the pandemic is still not within sight and so Filipinos are advised to be fully informed on what to do when they are suspected or confirmed...