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St Matthew’s University, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Providing quality education focused on the success of their students is the foundation of St. Matthew’s University (SMU). Their faculty and staff are as committed to your dreams as you are, and their small class sizes mean you receive personalized…

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Del Monte secures USDA approval for GM pineapple

Del Monte Fresh Produce has won approval from the USDA to ship genetically engineered pineapple into the US. The Del Monte Fresh Produce Co., based in the Cayman Islands, has developed a transgenic pineapple that has tissue of a “novel…

‘Cannibal’ shark eats its siblings in the womb

By Robert Ferris, Business insider Most humans are pretty scared of sharks, but for the sand tiger shark, its own brothers and sisters are the ones who have the most to fear. In one of nature’s most extreme cases of…

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Wearable technology: The bra designed to shock attackers

By Fiona Graham, Technology of business reporter, BBC News “The Delhi gang rape was the trigger. But also the numbness of women – and law-makers against this social menace. It was high time we women needed a change.” Manisha Mohan…

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Can You Really Patent A Gene?

The Financialist The question of whether genetic material can or should be patented by pharmaceutical companies is being tested in courts both in the U.S. and overseas. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard an appeal by the American Civil…

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Team reconstructs ‘human ancestor’

BBC The most complete view yet of a possible human ancestor uncovered in South Africa has revealed an intriguing mix of human and ape traits. The two-million-year-old remains of several partial skeletons belonging to a previously unknown humanlike species were…