Singapore-born teen discovers tree pulp's anti-ageing benefits

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OTTAWA (AFP) - A Singapore-born teenager who recently moved to Canada won a national science award on Tuesday for her groundbreaking work on the anti-ageing properties of tree pulp, officials said.


Janelle Tam, 16, won the US$5,000 (S$6,240) award in the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada for showing that cellulose, the woody material found in trees that enables them to stand, also acts as a potent anti-oxidant.
'Her super anti-oxidant compound could one day help improve health and anti-ageing products by neutralising more of the harmful free-radicals found in the body,' Bioscience Education Canada said in a statement.


Tam's work involved tiny particles in the tree pulp known as nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC), which is flexible, durable, and also stronger than steel.


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[erection2015]

so sinkies indeed do have creativity ...its just that the environment here inhibits them. Good show. Sinkie ay sai.

 

[Raiders]

so sinkies indeed do have creativity ...its just that the environment here inhibits them. Good show. Sinkie ay sai.

Yes brother. If he had stayed in Singapore and started playing with trees, the relatives would have refered him to IMH.

 

[erection2015]

hehehehe its a char bor leh....:p. Ya i agree with you. Not much room to be different here.

Yes brother. If he had stayed in Singapore and started playing with trees, the relatives would have refered him to IMH.

 

[exobay]

so sinkies indeed do have creativity ...its just that the environment here inhibits them. Good show. Sinkie ay sai.

Ex-sinkie now. She has left already as Singapore prefer FT's.

 

[erection2015]

understood....what i meant was that if she had continued here there would be little chance of this success story happening. Conditions are too stifling here. Uniformity and conformity being the order of the day.
FTs are imported and counted on to bring in the creativity...whether most of them do or not is another story.

Ex-sinkie now. She has left already as Singapore prefer FT's.

 

[exobay]

understood....what i meant was that if she had continued here there would be little chance of this success story happening. Conditions are too stifling here. Uniformity and conformity being the order of the day.
FTs are imported and counted on to bring in the creativity...whether most of them do or not is another story.

Sad that she could possibly be the one to put Singapore on the world map.

 

[erection2015]

and help us all retard the ageing process...although that would be detrimental in some cases.

Sad that she could possibly be the one to put Singapore on the world map.

 

[exobay]

and help us all retard the ageing process...although that would be detrimental in some cases.

Like help that old man age 89 live longer? Heavens forbid!

Will put all of us into purgatory.

 

[erection2015]

imagine BosSam living forever

 

[tonychat]

See... I am right again. When a person stays away from sinkie and sinkieland. The person will shine.
This is the real life example of the effect of unsinkification.

 

[tonychat]

See... I am right again. When a person stays away from sinkie and sinkieland. The person will shine.
This is the real life example of the effect of unsinkification.

 

[erection2015]

no need to make your point by double posting la..we hear you everytime the first time. Cheong hei kwai

See... I am right again. When a person stays away from sinkie and sinkieland. The person will shine.
This is the real life example of the effect of unsinkification.

 

[looneytan]

See... the effect of unsinkification.

unsinkification!

read my sig

 

[Borat]

Poor Singapore, now all it can do is bask in reflected glory, can now only say "Singapore-born teenager" instead of Singaporean. How much is her worth compared to a team of ping pong players winning the Championship?

 

[erection2015]

wonder what motivated the move from sinkiepoor

Poor Singapore, now all it can do is bask in reflected glory, can now only say "Singapore-born teenager" instead of Singaporean. How much is her worth compared to a team of ping pong players winning the Championship?

 

[Borat]

wonder what motivated the move from sinkiepoor

I wonder too, perhaps her family became citizens there and she graduated in Canada.

Anyway, China also can say the same thing. China-born Singapore players won the World Table Tennis Championship against the opposing China team.:(

 

[erection2015]

damn shy...wholesale import...so visible some more.

I wonder too, perhaps her family became citizens there and she graduated in Canada.

Anyway, China also can say the same thing. China-born Singapore players won the World Table Tennis Championship against the opposing China team.:(

 

[Unrepented]

I thought the burmese already knew, and using tree pulp from certain trees for that purpose

 

[drifter]

Like help that old man age 89 live longer? Heavens forbid!

Will put all of us into purgatory.

brother is not heaven forbid ...its nature forbid