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Issue 1, September 2014
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Gold has been at the heart of South Africa’s economy since the late 1880s, and prospects are on the rise again.
But this time, there’s a new kind of gold to be found here. It lies waiting, within our remarkable biodiversity and in the knowledge systems of our indigenous peoples...
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When Peter Piot was in his final year of medicine, in 1973, his academic supervisor at the time told him that there was no future in infectious diseases.
Just three years later, he was part of the team that identified the Ebola virus, one of the deadliest infectious agents ever discovered...
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September is Heart Awareness Month and South Africans have real cause for concern, due to both lifestyle and genetic risk factors.
Cardiovascular disease, which could lead to a stroke or heart attack, is often associated with obesity, high blood glucose levels, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
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“The condom broke.” These three words can be terrifying in a country where over 12% of the population is HIV positive.
The responsible thing to do if the condom should break during sexual intercourse, or after any incident that might put one at risk of HIV infection, is of course to go and get tested.
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Biotech in business
Company profile: Genius Biotherapeutics
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Biotech Bytes
Snippets of the latest in local peer-reviewed research
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Save the date
Upcoming biotech events & conferences to diarise.
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Book Review
South-South Collaborations in Health Biotechnology: Growing Partnerships amongst Developing Countries
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Storified
Biologist Yoshiki Sasai commits suicide after Nature-paper controversy
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debate about biotechnology and its current and potential applications.
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The articles in this newsletter have been reviewed by independent experts through SAASTA’s
Scientific Editorial Process. For more information please visit saasta.ac.za.
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The PUB newsletter is an initiative of the Public Understanding of Biotechnology (PUB) programme.
The newsletter is developed by ScienceLink.
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