Search for treasures from the sea
THE DIVERSITY of the ocean with its vast array of colourful organisms presents an exciting opportunity to fish for things more tantalising than the palatable lobster or a treasure chest full of gold abandoned by pirates...
The Mona symposium: natural products and medicinal chemistry
LIKE SO many things, the Natural Products Symposium had an informal beginning when, in the '60s; Dr. Wilfred Chan of UWI, Mona (Department of Chemistry) invited a few overseas visiting colleagues to the Senior Common Room.
Is our ackee safe?
THE CONTROVERSIAL ackee situation with which we are once again faced has left a lot of concerns about the consumption of the fruit. It just seems that our nation's produce is always under the selective eye of the world.
Our services
THE RECENT decision by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reject a batch of Jamaican canned ackees has created a major concern to all local processors involved in the production of canned ackee for export.
Our view
JAMAICA RANKS in the top 10 islands of the world for biodiversity, and there are vast numbers of undiscovered natural products present in our local angiosperms, microflora, marine organisms, macrofungi, insects and other fauna.
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