Heritable genome edits can be passed down to future generations, raising not only scientific and medical considerations but also a host of ethical, moral, and societal issues...
10 Sep 2020
By the first week of August 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic had caused about 654,000 deaths worldwide...
Christian Happi 7 Sep 2020
A study performed in Cameroon by a University of Cape Town professor may offer hope of treatment for people with sickle cell anaemia (SCA), a disease which affects hundreds of thousands in Africa...
Elsabé Brits 3 Sep 2020
As fall approaches rapidly, many are wondering if the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021...
William Petri 24 Aug 2020
With the world's attention focused on combating Covid-19, it is easy to forget the other significant threat to public health and the global economy - the rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)...
Lara Marks & Ankur Mutreja 11 Aug 2020
Some scientists feel that the current Covid-19 pandemic, which has already infected more than 16-million and killed more than 600,000 worldwide, is only a dress rehearsal for an even bigger pandemic...
27 Jul 2020
Sustainable agriculture and better health monitoring needed to break chain of disease transmission in food systems...
Fatima Arkin 23 Jul 2020
Brand South Africa launched a comprehensive research intervention involving an annual national omnibus survey, monthly online/mobile surveys, focus groups and in-depth interviews...
Dr Petrus de Kock, Issued by Brand South Africa 21 Jul 2020
Considering the IP and legal implications of gene editing...
Chyreene Truluck 27 May 2020
The lockdown in South Africa and many other countries around the world to limit the spread of the Covid-19 virus will put significant pressure on an already-strained global economy...
Cecil Ungerer 23 Apr 2020
Glaucoma is the most common cause of irreversible blindness in the world. It's estimated that by 2040 there will be about 112-million people in the world with glaucoma - mostly in Africa and Asia. The best that medical science can do at present is identify it early and slow or halt its progression...
Susan Williams 22 Apr 2020
One important aspect of managing emerging infections is identifying chains of transmission and assigned cases to clusters of infection...
Peter van Heusden 20 Apr 2020
We are in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. It started as a health crisis, within days became a real economic crisis, and is now on a swift path to becoming a massive fiscal challenge...
Adam Ikdal 31 Mar 2020
Scientists have known of the human coronavirus since the 1960s. But only rarely has it garnered wider recognition over the past half a century...
Burtram Fielding 25 Mar 2020
Since their discovery in 1928, antibiotics have become a common way of treating infections caused by bacteria, fungi and other microbes. To treat an infection, a doctor usually prescribes a course of antibiotics (such as penicillin) for us to take. This drug is usually contained in a capsule then swallowed, where it dissolves in the stomach.
David Moyes & Victoria Carr 25 Feb 2020
The discovery of a rare new strain of HIV for the first time in nearly 20 years recently made headlines around the world...
Linda-Gail Bekker 7 Feb 2020
Scientists have revealed the detailed genetic makeup of thousands of cancer samples, yielding new insights into the genes that drive the many and varied forms of the disease...
Melissa Southey 6 Feb 2020
Schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of people in all parts of the world and is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide...
2 Feb 2020
The search for better cancer treatments continues, as current options often cause severe side effects. Less than 5% of experimental anticancer drugs are approved for use in humans, but scientists are bringing new technologies to the quest...
Krupa Naran, Dharanidharan Ramamurthy, Neelakshi Mungra & Stefan Barth 14 Jan 2020
The Ugu Film Festival will be held at the Margate Hotel in Port Shepstone from 24 to 26 January 2020...
9 Jan 2020
Medical schemes in South Africa are facing a watershed moment with the imminent threat to their future role and overall existence under the National Health Insurance (NHI)...
Lerato Mosiah 6 Jan 2020
In the knowledge economy, every glimpse of the probable future carries monetary value...
marian salzman 13 Dec 2019
The infectious disease burden in Africa is very high, particularly for tuberculosis (TB), malaria and HIV/Aids...
Ozlem Tastan Bishop 13 Dec 2019
New research reveals how and why only certain DNA elements are chosen to regulate gene expression within the vast genome and how this predisposes us to diseases...
11 Dec 2019
Twenty women researchers from 15 countries in the Sub-Saharan African region were recently awarded in the 2019 Young Talent Awards as part of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science programme...
25 Nov 2019
Synthetic biology lets us explore places where evolution has never gone, to help meet humanity's food needs in a future shaped by climate change...
Claudia Vickers 20 Nov 2019
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, are calling for annual blood tests to detect aggressive prostate cancer in men who have a fault in the BRCA2 gene...
Michael Porter 8 Nov 2019
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have pinpointed a molecular defect that seems almost universal among patients with Parkinson's disease and those at a high risk of acquiring it...
30 Oct 2019
An international, collaborative study led by University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers has revealed an unexpected finding that could lead to better therapies towards reducing the HIV reservoir, a major barrier to developing a cure for HIV...
15 Oct 2019
Sales managers in South Africa currently have to deal with two very important factors that have a significant impact on the sales environment...
Dr Marius Wait 10 Oct 2019
The University of Pretoria (UP) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have successfully developed a vaccine against avian influenza using tobacco plants...
10 Oct 2019
Public health organisations around the world have been fighting for global eradication of polio since 1988. Through massive vaccination efforts, the incidence of polio has gone down 99% since then, with the virus eradicated from most of the countries on Earth...
Patricia L Foster 17 Sep 2019
Now that the proverbial dust has settled on the Loeries Awards, and the self-congratulatory social media posts are gradually dwindling, we are left with the epitaph of, "Did we actually tell better stories?"...
Issued by Gagasi FM 5 Sep 2019
From preventative medicine to smart mobility to 5G, the 2020s will see significant trends driving global growth over the next decade...
23 Jul 2019
It is crucial to monitor patients taking the new drug for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), bedaquiline, to prevent resistance...
Elsabé Brits 11 Jul 2019
Hisense, supplier of affordable and high-quality electronic goods, is rapidly gaining traction across the continent's business-to-business market and is poised to become a significant player in Africa...
Issued by Ninety9cents 10 Jul 2019
Up to 80% of metastatic colorectal cancers are likely to have spread to distant locations in the body before the original tumour has exceeded the size of a poppy seed...
25 Jun 2019
FCM general manager Nicole Adonis identifies three of the biggest global data challenges that impact a company travel programme with tips to overcome them...
25 Jun 2019
For several months, my friend's father lay helpless in one of Nairobi's premier hospitals. There was no clear diagnosis...
Jenniffer Mabuka-Maroa 5 Apr 2019
The global Aids response has made significant progress in reducing HIV infections and Aids-related deaths...
Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Mar 2019
The cost of cybercrime is rapidly outpacing our ability to keep up, but can machine learning add value to cybersecurity?
Doros Hadjizenonos 25 Mar 2019
Human Genome Project has not lived up to the hype on beating disease, but a new alcohol abuse study could change that...
Alasdair Mackenzie 18 Mar 2019
This week a team of scientists and physicians from the UK published news of a second HIV positive man, in London, who is in long-term (18-month) HIV remission after undergoing treatment for Hodgkins lymphoma...
Allison Webel 8 Mar 2019
An antibody-based treatment can gently and effectively eliminate diseased blood-forming stem cells in the bone marrow to prepare for the transplantation of healthy stem cells...
14 Feb 2019
The 2019 Africa's Travel Indaba will take place from 2-4 May 2019 at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban...
13 Feb 2019
Jason Ngibuini from the University of Witwatersrand is a regional winner in the 32nd Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Award, taking the top prize of R10,000...
5 Feb 2019
The complex industry/academia/government research framework involved in discovering and developing new therapeutic products makes drug discovery an extremely laborious and costly exercise...
6 Jan 2019
As long as there have been opportunities, there have been opportunists looking to exploit them. The old-school con man has evolved into the modern hacker, and hacking has been through many different permutations in the last few decades.
Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library 19 Dec 2018