The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed an agreement with Afriplex - a well-known South African manufacturer of nutraceutical and healthcare products - to carry out biological evaluation studies on the herbal extracts that may be beneficial in the management of colds ...
Poverty-related diseases to be the focus of high-level nanomedicine workshop
It is estimated that poverty-related diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), chagas disease, HIV/Aids and others kill approximately 14 million people annually. While these diseases reflect a dynamic relationship between poverty, morbidity and mortality, they f...
CSIR takes the fight against Aids and TB to another level
The South African government commitment to fight against the scourge of AIDS and TB received a massive unprecedented boost with the unveiling of state-of- the- art HIV and TB laboratory facility in Pretoria today. HIV and TB are national health priorities and in its quest to find the cure for the...
Innovative microscopy course to attract international participation
The CSIR Synthetic Biology Emerging Research Area, with the support of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), is hosting a practical course entitled Microscopy: from genome scale to the single molecule at the CSIR Knowledge Commons from 31 May to 12 June 2010. The course has received...