Researchers from the Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER) and the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) Faculty of Science, and SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Biodiversity Medicine (BD-MED), in a world’s first, fully mapped the genome of the Sultanate’s national flower bunga simpur (dillenia suffruticosa) and found potential therapeutic properties, encompassing anti-cancer capabilities.
The findings were shared during a press conference on Tuesday on the bunga simpur genome project chaired by UBD Vice-Chancellor Dr Hazri bin Haji Kifle with the project’s researchers.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin