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Filipino researchers are taking the fight against dengue right down to households where the health menace starts.

A research team from the Industrial Technology Development Institute of the Department of Science and Technology began field tests September 24 on its Ovicidal Trap System (OTS) for mosquitoes in Quezon City and Marikina City, respectively.

OTS is designed to significantly shrink the reproductive activities of mosquitoes through lure and catch. The month-long field tests covering 250 households in Barangays [villages] Bagbag in QC and Nangka in Marikina aim to validate the effectiveness of OTS.

The OTS kits will be collected every fifth day of each week for laboratory examination at the ITDI facility in Bicutan, Taguig City.

OTS is a simple trap system made of ordinary tin can (regular size evaporated milk) painted black and a strip of lawanit board (1 x 6.5 x 1/2 in.). An all-natural solution is poured into the can and by capillary action moistens the board. The moist lawanit board becomes like an ideal nest for female aedes mosquito (FAM) to lay its eggs on.

The tin can serves as the platform where reproductive activity happens. Inside it is a lawanit strip where the FAM supposedly would lay eggs until they hatch while the ovicidal solution, which also works as FM attractant, kills the eggs and larva in the process.

Based on ITDI laboratory tests, the OTS wipes out 100% of FAM eggs and larva.

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We are very sorry to inform you that Secretary Mario G. Montejo has decided to postpone the September 28, 2010 Delphi Assembly on the National R&D Priorities Plan (NRDPP) at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Pasay City to a later date as he wants to be given the opportunity to actively participate in said activity. He will be out of the country from September 23, 2010 to October 1, 2010.

Please be assured that we shall keep you posted on its rescheduled date. Again, in behalf of the Secretary, please accept our apologies.

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Communities along major rivers will have two hours to prepare and scurry to safer grounds ahead of impending floods when real time updates on water level becomes available within the next two years, Department of Science and Technology Secretary Mario G. Montejo said.

“We will be able to provide two-hour lead-time on our flood forecast,” Montejo disclosed during the 6th North Luzon Science and Technology Fair held in Santiago, Isabela. “This can translate in terms of lives and properties saved, especially for those living near the rivers.”

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPO) recently released the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) for the Philippine Technology Transfer Act of 2009.

Signed into law on March 23, the Technology Transfer Act which took effect May 8 this year grants Intellectual Property ownership to research and development institutions that conduct research and development (R&D) using public funds. This paves the way for scientists to benefit from the results of public-funded researches. It allows scientists, state universities and colleges, and research institutions to profit from research funded by taxpayers.

The IRR, which emphasizes the need to transfer and commercialize technologies generated by research institutions using public funds, was signed on August 19 by DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo and IPO Director General Ricardo R. Blancaflor. Commercialization, in this case, refers to the process of deriving income or profit from a technology, such as the creation of a spin-off company, or through licensing, or the sale of the technology and/or intellectual property rights.

The aim is for research institutions to effectively translate results of government-funded R&D into useful products and services that benefit the public. The successful transfer of government-funded R&D depends on the proper management of intellectual property.

“Intellectual property" refers to intangible assets resulting from the creative work of an individual or organization.