The world’s human population is expected to grow to nine billion by 2050, posing two significant challenges: providing enough...
Aptamers contine to generate a lot of research interest for use in biosensors and novel methods of drug delivery. How do they...
Beyond representing the future of medicine, stem cells are a part of our past and present. Where are we headed?
Health
The risk of dying from a range of cancers in many African countries (including South Africa) is...
Food
Finding ways to ramp up the ability of rural populations to derive economic benefit from natural...
Biotechnology
While luck may have something to do with accidental discovery, there is often at the heart of these stories in science an entrepreneurial mind.
Environment
Microbial fuell cells generate bioelectricity while “cleaning up” waste – effectively using the...
Insight & Opinion
Carlos Fioravanti Brazilian and American scientists have demonstrated that a compound known as P-...
Wildlife
The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one...