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Education and AI in the spotlight

Youth Month

Education and AI in the spotlight

Issued by Mann Made 2 days

Ceribio: Biotech’s new launchpad in Stellenbosch

How To Start Up

Ceribio: Biotech’s new launchpad in Stellenbosch

Issued by Stellenbosch University 27 May 2025

Oceana invests $1.5m in US seafood innovation fund

Fishing

Oceana invests $1.5m in US seafood innovation fund

15 Apr 2025

#BizTrends2025: Curating the future - the transformation of food security in South Africa

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Curating the future - the transformation of food security in South Africa

Alan Browde 13 Jan 2025

South Africa's best tech startups for 2024 announced

Awards

South Africa's best tech startups for 2024 announced

Imran Salie 27 Nov 2024

Source: Reuters.

Pharmaceuticals

Viatris fined in Morocco over merger notification, sources say

Ahmed Eljechtimi 22 Nov 2024

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

CPHI Middle East: Future of pharma takes centre stage

14 Nov 2024

Source: Pexels.

Healthcare

African women leaders unite to launch Africa Breast Cancer Council

21 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Africa CDC confident it can raise $600m for mpox response

Anait Miridzhanian 17 Sep 2024

Partner with Enterprises UP for success in clinical trials

Specialties

Partner with Enterprises UP for success in clinical trials

Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria 27 Aug 2024

AI is slowly making its way into advanced pharmacology, but will need investor patience.

Data & Analytics

Forget chat bots, AI is helping out in drug discovery and development

Lindsey Schutters 17 Jul 2024

Finalists selected for inaugural Bio Centrifuge Africa competition

Higher Education

Finalists selected for inaugural Bio Centrifuge Africa competition

Issued by Eduvos 11 Jul 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

BioNTech gets $145m funding for African vaccine plants

Jennifer Rigby and Ludwig Burger 30 May 2024

Eduvos and TASK launch Bio Centrifuge Africa competition, paving the way for biotech innovation

Higher Education

Eduvos and TASK launch Bio Centrifuge Africa competition, paving the way for biotech innovation

Issued by Eduvos 21 May 2024

Polymer innovator helps to transform world of medicine

Medical Research

Polymer innovator helps to transform world of medicine

Issued by Stellenbosch University 21 May 2024

Source: Biotts.

Pharmaceuticals

Biotts makes history: Transdermal insulin delivery

2 May 2024

Maltento opens new insect biotech lab in Cape Town

Research & Development

Maltento opens new insect biotech lab in Cape Town

23 Apr 2024

Source: @LightUpScience/Twitter. Richard Slayman is seen here with the surgical team at Massachusetts General Hospital who performed his transplant, led by Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD and Nahel Elias, MD.

Healthcare

Man survives pig kidney transplant

8 Apr 2024

Source: Supplied.

Medtech

InUversal Group's next-gen medical hubs prioritise holistic wellcare and 4IR technology

11 Dec 2023

Winners revealed for inaugural South African Startup and Investor Awards

Awards

Winners revealed for inaugural South African Startup and Investor Awards

9 Nov 2023

Source: © 123rf the 5th Industrial Revolution is predicted to centre on the harmonisation between humanity and technology,” says Dr Linda Meyer, MD of The Independent Institute of Education’s Rosebank College

4th Industrial Revolution

5 steps to remain resilient in your career

26 Oct 2023

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus is pictured in Seattle, Washington, US 5 May 2021. Reuters/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo

Medical Research

Gates gives $40m to boost access to mRNA vaccines in Africa

Jennifer Rigby and Wendell Roelf 9 Oct 2023

Navigating commercial real estate trends in 2023 and beyond

Trends

Navigating commercial real estate trends in 2023 and beyond

Brent Townes 24 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Indian firm used toxic industrial-grade ingredient in syrup - sources

Saurabh Sharma, Krishna N. Das; Jennifer Rigby and Olzhas Auyezov 28 Jun 2023

Medtech

Sanofi fully embraces AI and data science for patient breakthroughs

20 Jun 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Indian labs to give 'top priority' to tests on cough syrup exports - regulator

25 May 2023

Biotech company wins $1m grand prize for advancing agritech in Africa

Agri Tech

Biotech company wins $1m grand prize for advancing agritech in Africa

5 May 2023

Africa Agri Tech 2023 to spotlight agriculture, science and technology

Agri Tech

Africa Agri Tech 2023 to spotlight agriculture, science and technology

17 Feb 2023

Grass protein: The next plant base for alt-meat?

FMCG

Grass protein: The next plant base for alt-meat?

14 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters. Packages of Bio Farma's Covid-19 vaccine are seen at Command Center and Vaccine Distribution Management System of Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia.

Covid-19

Indonesia in talks with African countries to export its homemade Covid shot

10 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters/Shelley Christians. A production scientist works with samples at the Afrigen Biologics' site in Cape Town.

Emergency Medicine

SA's Afrigen partners with US on mRNA vaccine research

Bhargav Acharya, Nellie Peyton and Josie Kao 12 Jul 2022

Source: FreePik.

Covid-19

New agreement paves way for development of first African-owned Covid-19 vaccine

27 Jun 2022

Source: L'Oréal

ESG

L'Oréal launches fund to invest in female-founded startups

1 Jun 2022

Source: Supplied: Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen,

Medical Research

#AfricaMonth: Injecting the continent - and the world - with hope

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

How using a cross-curriculum approach in schools can boost entrepreneurship

Primary & Secondary Education

How using a cross-curriculum approach in schools can boost entrepreneurship

Sheena Crawford-Kempster 14 Apr 2022

All the 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme Innovation competition winners

Awards

All the 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme Innovation competition winners

25 Feb 2022

Source: Moderna

Covid-19

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

18 Feb 2022

Source: Supplied.

Covid-19

SA regulator approves Covid-19 vaccine from China

7 Feb 2022

No perfect solution: Africa's smallholder farmers must use both traditional and new practices

Agro-processing

No perfect solution: Africa's smallholder farmers must use both traditional and new practices

Ratemo Michieka 7 Feb 2022

Trends

#BizTrends2022: Introducing age reversal as South Africa's new therapeutic frontier

Katja Hamilton 5 Jan 2022

Womvest launch encourages women to invest in women

Events & Conferencing

Womvest launch encourages women to invest in women

Issued by Lume Communications 3 Dec 2021

Pharmaceuticals

South Africa needs to tighten controls on substandard and counterfeit medicines. Here's how

David R. Katerere 25 Nov 2021

L to R: InnoHealth co-founders Dr Chad Marthinussen, Abdul-Malick Salie and Dr Wade Palmer. | Image supplied

#StartupStory

#StartupStory: Cape-based startup set to disrupt SA healthtech space

Johannes Masiteng 29 Jul 2021

Health & Safety

SA Biotech company the first to receive EU biocide approval

7 Jul 2021