Based primarily on a systematic review of the relevant literature between 2000 and 2017, this article reflects on the state of journalism about science in developing countries, with a focus on its issues, challenges and implications for their developmental processes and causes. Five major themes emerge from our analysis: (a) heavy dependence on foreign sources, especially the media of the Global North; (b) the low status of domestic science news in newsrooms; (c) uncritical science reporting that easily lends itself to influences of non-science vested interests; (d) tight grip of politics on science journalism; and (e) ineffective relationships between science and journalism. We will demonstrate that, while some of these problems exist in the North, they can have far more severe consequences on the progress of the South, where news plays an almost exclusive role in informing and engaging laypeople with science and its socio-cultural, economic and political implications.

To determine the appropriate content of organic selenium in food which can improve biochemical and immune ability of Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer Bloch 1790), a number of fish fry fed in different diets containing Sel-plex supplement concentrations of 0.0 (control), 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 g/kg respectively for 50 days are studied. The research results show that the organic selenium supplementation of 0.5 g Sel-plex/ kg (5.54 mg Se/ kg) proves to be the most appropriate and can improve growth rate, reduce the moisture in the muscles, increase crude protein content, total blood cells THC and resistance to Vibrio parahaemolyticus density of 106 cfu/ml.

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