Wellness in Science & Technology: Asteroid named after young Pinoy

Asteroid named after young Pinoy | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online: "DoST Merit Scholar Miguel Arnold Reyes, a graduate of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) Main Campus, took home $1,500 and will have an asteroid to be named after him as an award from the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 2011 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in Los Angeles, California.

While Angeli Joyce Dy of Capiz National High School also won fourth place and took home a $500 prize.

Reyes’ research outshined other researches with his “Synthesis and Characterization of Composite Plastics from Thermoplastic Starch and Nano-sized Calcium Phosphate for Film Packaging,” which seeks to produce biodegradable plastic for film packaging from a composite of thermoplastics from cornstarch and nano-sized phosphate particles.

Dy’s research titled “Milkfish (Chanos chanos Forsskal) Serum as an Alternative Media Supplement for Culture of A549 (Human Lung) and HCT 116 (Colon) Carcinomas.

Her research showed that milkfish serum is rich in mannose-binding proteins and albumin that are potential replacements of expensive fetal bovine serum (FBS) being used as culture of the lung and colon cancer cells."