Seaweed Research

Trends in seaweed research.

ARC Centre in Bioinformatics and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia University of Malaya Mar...

Seaweed-Facts and Experience

Seaweed and Man

Despite an Asian aquaculture tradition of many centuries, aquatic farming on the global scale is still a young sector of food production that has grown rapidly in the last 50 years. Seaweeds, a colloquial but widely used term for macroalgae, play an important role in this business which remains a growing, vibrant, and important production sector for healthy human food. As archaeological investi...

Seaweed prevents breast cancer?

To investigate the chemopreventive effects of seaweed on breast cancer, we have been studying the relationship between iodine and breast cancer. We found earlier that the seaweed, wakame, showed a suppressive effect on the proliferation of DMBA (dimethylbenz(a)anthracene)-induced rat mammary tumors, possibly via apoptosis induction. In the present study, powdered mekabu was placed in distilled ...

Asymmetric Interface for Seaweed System

Seaweed is a web application in which economists can build simple games to post to the web in order to obtain research data. However, this system was lacking the ability to create asymmetric games. For my Undergraduate Advanced Project, I have implemented an extension to the Seaweed interface to allow designers to create this class of games (and, of course, modified the game engine so that thes...