UP researchers find environmental toxins poison epigenetic inheritance

Posted on February 09, 2024

In a study that signals potential reproductive and health complications in humans, now and for future generations, researchers at the University of Pretoria and Canada’s McGill University and Université Laval have concluded that toxins in the environment, notably DDT, modify the sperm...

Environmental toxins poisoning epigenetic inheritance

Posted on February 05, 2024

In a study that signals potential reproductive and health complications in humans

UP EXPERT OPINION: Regional collaboration and transdisciplinary research could end malaria in SADC

Posted on November 06, 2023

Malaria claims the life of an African child every two minutes.

UP EXPERT OPINION: World Malaria Day 2023: How leadership, innovation, investments can contribute to eliminating malaria

Posted on April 25, 2023

UP malaria experts, Professor Tiaan de Jager and Dr Taneshka Kruger from UP's Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control shed light on ways to eliminate malaria in light of World Malaria Day today, 25 May 2023.

Keeping cattle safe from parasites can help protect us from malaria

Posted on April 24, 2023

Malaria mosquitoes are killed when they feed on livestock treated with anti-parasitic drugs.

UP-led study finds aloe plant could impede life cycle of malaria-carrying parasite

Posted on February 09, 2023

Experts at the University of Pretoria (UP) are a step closer to finding a drug that could prevent transmission of the malaria-carrying parasite Plasmodium falciparum by thwarting its life cycle.

UP ISMC students to showcase their malaria research at annual Malaria Research Conference

Posted on July 21, 2022

Despite being fully preventable and treatable, malaria remains a challenging and very complex disease to eliminate.

Remarkable in red – Four new PhDs leaving their mark on malaria drug discovery

Posted on May 31, 2022

The rapid emergence of malaria parasite resistance towards current antimalarial drugs