Featured Research: Genomics & Biotechnology

Story

Study aims to address complex genomics of human diversity and prostate cancer

Gender is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of health and life expectancy. For men, unfortunately, this is not good news. On average, across the globe, men die six years earlier than their female counterparts.

Lecture

‘A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy of brain/body dialogues’

The title of Prof Millar’s lecture was ‘A hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy of brain/body dialogues’. He spoke about peptide hormones that regulate all aspects of body functions, including growth, energy metabolism and appetite, water and salt balance, stress and reproduction. These hormones are the target for a vast array of drugs that have found application in treating a wide range of...

Story

First-in-human anti-cancer procedure brings hope

Cancer affects the lives of thousands of people every day. Cancer cells that break off from a primary tumour and enter the bloodstream or lymph vessels can reach nearly all tissues of the body.

Story

FABI researchers unravel Eucalyptus tree genomics and biology

Researchers and postgraduate students from the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) and the Genomics Research Institute (GRI) at the University of Pretoria contributed to eight articles in a special issue of the journal, New Phytologist.

Gallery

Extreme climates

We live at a time where our resources – social, economic and environmental – are more at risk than ever before. Global warming is causing climate patterns to change – think higher temperatures and decreased rainfall.

Story

Answers to climate change may lie in the soil

Global warming is causing climate patterns to change – think higher temperatures and decreased rainfall. In fact, climatic models suggest that temperatures may rise by between 0.3°C and 4.8°C!