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The Filipino invention AGAPAY for upper extremity rehabilitation received its first international patent last January 11, 2023. 

With funding support from the Developed with support from the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) and implemented by the De La Salle University – Institute of Biomedical Engineering & Health Technologies (DLSU-IBEHT), the AGAPAY project seeks to aid the motor rehabilitation and physical therapy of stroke and injured patients. The application for the invention was filed last May 2021 with the support from the DOST-Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI). 

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The Department of Science and Technology – Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII), in cooperation with the Department of Science and Technology Region I (DOST-I) and the Department of Education Central Office (DepEd) conducted a training and orientation on Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly-Operated Kiosk Stations (STARBOOKS) usage and administration for DepEd regional and divisional information technology officers on 24 January 2023, at Ynad’s Place Resort and Hotel, City of San Fernando, La Union.

Llyod Frederick Mandapat, Science Research Specialist II of DOST-STII presented the overview of STARBOOKS emphasizing its purpose which is to give free offline multiple access to all contents of DOST-STII Library to beneficiaries and students that are far from the area. The task and scope of work for the DOST-I, DOST-STII, and DepEd were also discussed, focusing on system-related problems, the configuration of preloaded STARBOOKS, and monitoring STARBOOKS sites. 

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Some 15 personnel from LGU-Tampilisan successfully completed the hands-on training on the use, operation, and maintenance of bioreactor and plastic densifier technologies last 23-26 January 2023 in Tampilisan, Zamboanga del Norte. 

The four-day training activity was organized by the Department of Science and Technology – IX through its Provincial Science and Technology Office in Zamboanga del Norte (PSTO-ZDN), and in cooperation with DOST’s Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI). Experts from DOST-ITDI namely Engr. Pierre Jordan Mendoza, Engr. Benjamin Santos, and Joannalene Tuazon served as resource persons and trainers. 

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Yes, mined-out areas can still be rehabilitated through the government’s Greening mined-out areas in the Philippines (GMAP) program that adopted Bioremediation, the use of live microbes and plants as biological solutions to clean up and rehabilitate stressed environment such as mined out or mine tailing areas.

The GMAP program, lead by Dr. Nelly Aggangan, from the University of the Philippines, Los Banos, successfully developed microbial-based protocol that can effectively rehabilitate unproductive mine tailing areas in the Philippines, converting barren lands into mini forests.  

Mined-out areas are devoid of plants due to many biotic and abiotic factors and one of them is the presence of residual heavy metals in the mining wastes.