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Two new exhibitions usher in summer at Zeitz Mocaa

Lifestyle

Two new exhibitions usher in summer at Zeitz Mocaa

Issued by DNA Brand Architects 15 Nov 2023

Healthcare

WHO closely monitors Covid variant amid mutation concerns

Katja Hamilton 15 Aug 2023

All about cholesterol

Healthcare

All about cholesterol

Issued by Bonitas 13 Jun 2023

Healthcare

Dept of Health monitoring hospitalisations and deaths linked to new Covid-19 variant

9 Jan 2023

Breast cancer awareness in the genomic landscape

Healthcare

Breast cancer awareness in the genomic landscape

Fourie Joubert and Annie Joubert, Issued by University of Pretoria 18 Oct 2022

Marketing & Media

The I in AI

Edward Herridge 10 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Dr Fatima Hoosain.

Healthcare

Understanding the treatment of breast cancer in young women

Dr Fatima Hoosain 18 May 2022

Source: Moderna

Healthcare

Bancel says he's working to get Moderna vaccine in Hong Kong

18 Feb 2022

#BizTrends2022: Safeguarding supply chain sustainability in a post-pandemic world

Logistics & Transport

#BizTrends2022: Safeguarding supply chain sustainability in a post-pandemic world

Dr Juanita Maree 5 Jan 2022

Healthcare

Omicron gets around some, not all immunity

2 Dec 2021

Source: Reuters/Mike Hutchings/Illustration

Finance

South Africa's rand recovers

29 Nov 2021

Source: Reuters/Sumaya Hisham

Healthcare

Omicron explained: Why scientists are worried

Alistair Smout, Alexander Winning, Tim Cocks, Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, Stephanie Nebehay 28 Nov 2021

Source: ©alena-shekhovtcova

Healthcare

New vaccine tailored to Omicron can be ready in 100 days

28 Nov 2021

Source: Department of Health

Healthcare

Covid-19: New variant with multiple mutations detected in SA

Danette Breitenbach 25 Nov 2021

Marketing & Media

Lessons from TV

Colin Ramparsadh 17 Nov 2021

Some of the most vulnerable are yet to receive their first dose. Hanna Kuprevich/Alamy Stock Photo

Healthcare

Covid-19: WHO calls for moratorium on booster shots - is it justifiable?

Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson & Julian Savulescu 16 Aug 2021

Winning the war for inbox attention: Simple strategies to land your Black Friday emails

Marketing & Media

Winning the war for inbox attention: Simple strategies to land your Black Friday emails

Issued by Everlytic 27 Jul 2021

Source: ©Sebastien decoret

Healthcare

Equity and access need to be at the forefront of innovation in human genome editing

Jantina de Vries & Françoise Baylis 14 Jul 2021

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Healthcare

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Mark Ainsworth, head, coronavirus research, Schroders

Healthcare

How much of a threat is the India variant?

28 May 2021

Professor Shabir Madhi

Healthcare

Covid-19 is here to stay

21 Apr 2021

Healthcare

New Covid variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global 'maximum suppression'

Salim Abdool Karim 6 Apr 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith

Healthcare

Ebola might be a chronic infection - but here's why we shouldn't panic

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

Healthcare

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

18 Mar 2021

A Phase I Covid-19 vaccine trial is about to start in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Healthcare

A new vaccine is being tested in Cape Town: Here's why it's different

Michael Cherry 19 Feb 2021

Healthcare

How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of Covid-19

Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021

Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Covid vaccine weekly: developing boosters for new mutations

Rob Reddick 8 Feb 2021

Study shows that the Novavax vaccine is effective against the dominant variant of Covid-19 in South Africa. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Healthcare

Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?

Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

Some key questions answered on Covid-19 vaccines for African countries

Ina Skosana & Ozayr Patel 19 Jan 2021

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Agriculture

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Malcolm Bennett, Bipin Pandey and Sacha Mooney 18 Jan 2021

Healthcare

Malaria parasites in Nigeria are genetically diverse: a danger but also a useful tool

Segun Isaac Oyedeji 20 Oct 2020

Heritable genome editing not yet ready to be tried safely and effectively in humans

Healthcare

Heritable genome editing not yet ready to be tried safely and effectively in humans

10 Sep 2020

Nigerian scientists are working to better understand coronavirus. African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease

Healthcare

Nigerian scientists have identified seven lineages of SARS-CoV-2: why it matters

Christian Happi 7 Sep 2020

Normal blood cells (left) and the blood cells in sickle cell disease, which do not flow through the circulatory system smoothly. Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI (CC BY 2.0)

Healthcare

UCT professor's research offers hope of treatment for sickle cell anaemia

Elsabé Brits 3 Sep 2020

A man being tested as he takes part in an ophthalmological study and examination. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

How African genetic studies offer hope for preventing a common cause of blindness

Susan Williams 22 Apr 2020

Stray cows rest on a New Delhi street during a one-day civil curfew to combat coronavirus. Cattle may have been central to a coronavirus outbreak in 1890. Yawar Nazir/Getty Images

Healthcare

A brief history of the coronavirus family - including one pandemic we might have missed

Burtram Fielding 25 Mar 2020

Commonly used antibiotics are no longer working. solarseven/ Shutterstock

Healthcare

Antibiotic resistance: new discovery could change the future of treatment

David Moyes & Victoria Carr 25 Feb 2020

David A. Litman/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Genetic secrets of almost 2,700 cancers unveiled by landmark international project

Melissa Southey 6 Feb 2020

Healthcare

We are using computer models to fight drug resistance

Ozlem Tastan Bishop 13 Dec 2019

Is there a war between direct and online selling?

Marketing & Media

Is there a war between direct and online selling?

Dr Marius Wait 11 Oct 2019

The oral polio vaccine is most commonly used in the developing world, despite one big problem.
CDC/Alan Janssen, MSPH, CC BY

Healthcare

A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide

Patricia L Foster 18 Sep 2019

Electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the cause of TB. Photo: NIAID via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Healthcare

South African researchers develop quicker way to detect drug resistance

Elsabé Brits 11 Jul 2019

With the right skills and infrastructure, Africa can boost its genomics research efforts. Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Africa needs a heavy dose of investment in genomics research

Jenniffer Mabuka-Maroa 5 Apr 2019

New HIV infections continue to drive the epidemic. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Why ending HIV still rests on a working cure - as well as prevention

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Mar 2019

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), shown here as tiny purple spheres, causes the disease known as AIDS. Mark Ellisman and Tom Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research

Healthcare

A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realised

Allison Webel 8 Mar 2019

Babies to order. Andrew Crotty/Shutterstock.com

Healthcare

Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about - it's not likely to happen

A Cecile JW Janssens 14 Dec 2018

Fruit-industry veteran scores an apple hat trick

Agriculture

Fruit-industry veteran scores an apple hat trick

15 Nov 2018

Agriculture

Fruit-industry veteran scores an apple hat trick

Issued by 15 Nov 2018

Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops

Agriculture

Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops

James Hereward and Caitlin Curtis 25 Oct 2018