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In September of 2011, two Kenyan geeks – Mbugua Njihia and Steve Mutinda – presented their unreleased product to an audience of US angel investors and technology experts – you may recall a blogpost we dedicated to this [...]
Grant represents vital step in meeting urgent global need to fund worldwide scientific efforts to eliminate airborne threat
Rockville, MD, USA | Cape Town, South Africa (March 15, 2012) – Aeras announces today the receipt of a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of up to US $220 million over [...]
From SciDev; Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer
Improving health for the poor depends on nurturing local innovations — and learning how to deliver them, argue Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer.
In the 1980s and 1990s the world’s life sciences researchers were largely ignoring the poor, with genomics, for example, mostly confined to sophisticated labs in [...]
Publishers note: “Cancer kills more people globally than HIV/Aids, TB and malaria, and in Africa it is becoming a growing health burden”. This was a headline in the Guardian newspaper.
Will advances in nanotechnology be a game changer for the war on cancer?
Imagine a test that sifts through millions of molecules in a [...]
Publishers Note: New technology to speed up diagnosis is good news for Africa. Improving diagnosis of malaria, HIV/Aids, TB and a host of other infections could lead to earlier treatment and better outcomes.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have tapped into the extraordinary power of carbon “nanotubes” to increase the speed of [...]
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