Biosciences

Women's Month Feature - Putting prolamin proteins to good use It was an acute interest in the nutritional and industrial potential of drought tolerant crops that tipped Nomusa Dlamini towards a career in biosciences.

New Chief Researcher - Pursuing the art of science in the lab Recently promoted to chief researcher, Brady does not consider research a mechanical exercise. There is an art to designing experiments that give clear, unambiguous results. More often than not, an experiment raises a few more questions than answers.

New Chief Researcher - Researching the drugs of the future Dr Chris Parkinson, one of only a handful of chief researchers at the CSIR, leads a team who is researching new chemotherapeutic agents that may be the drugs of the future in the treatment of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. His dream is to see some of their work progressing to fully-fledged clinical trials.

DST supports CSIR aptamer research in establishment of world-class P3 facility The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has awarded a generous multimillion rand research grant to the CSIR to establish a world class P3 facility. The CSIR Biosciences P3 facility will be used to conduct research targeted at HIV/Aids and TB using aptamers as tools.