Posted on July 30, 2018
A major challenge in cancer research is to find agents that target cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells alone and unharmed. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments can have many undesirable side effects because they damage healthy cells as well.
Posted on June 25, 2018
Lightning is a natural phenomenon that most people do not fully understand. Its magnitude and force is so great that it has the potential to cause devastating destruction, bringing damage to infrastructure, livelihoods and even life. Yet, it is something many people seem to underestimate and even...
Posted on June 11, 2018
Profs Namrita Lall, Xiaohua Xia, Mmantsae Diale, Kevin Wall and the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC), headed by Prof Tiaan de Jager are category finalists in this year’s prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards.
Posted on May 15, 2018
Mr Neil Morris, lecturer and course coordinator for the BScHons (Medical Criminalistics) and the MSc (Medical Criminalistics) course in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been seconded for a year to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
Posted on May 08, 2018
Malaria transmission in South Africa is seasonal and the months of September to May are malaria- or high season months. The summer rains during the first quarter of the year brings with them an increase in the number of malaria cases and malaria transmission is at its highest during the warmer...
Posted on April 26, 2018
Nobel Prize winners, also known as Nobel Laureates, are described as “the greatest benefit to mankind”. The Nobel Prize has been awarded to some of the world’s biggest icons, including Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa. There are six categories of Nobel...
Posted on April 19, 2018
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Health Sciences has three staff members who are accepted nominees in the highly acclaimed National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards 2017/2018.
Posted on March 22, 2018
Dr Bianca Verlinden, a young malaria researcher at the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC) is one of six young South African female scientists nominated by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) to attend the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in...
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