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African bio-manufacturing workforce training and skills development programme

The Biomanufacturing Technologies course provides comprehensive competency building and skills transfer across all aspects relating to biomanufacturing such as an in-depth look at the challenges and solutions for production and scale-up across various expression platforms including fungal, yeast,...

Collaboration between CSIR and DSI yields impactful results for Six Traditional Health Practitioners

The CSIR assisted six Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) in developing safe and standardised traditional medicines for commercialisation in a project funded by the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI). “The value of interfacing and mainstreaming indigenous knowledge (IK) within the nat...

Science and technology solutions to help SA’s economic recovery under the spotlight

The acceleration of South Africa’s energy transformation to address current economic challenges and industrialisation opportunities for the country’s economic recovery will take centre stage at the upcoming virtual Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 7th Biennial Conference. The...

CSIR gears up to bring relevant science and technology conversations to all in its first online conference

A South African born surgeon living in the United States of America – and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the healthcare sector, Prof. Patrick Soon-Shiong – is amongst the top speakers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 7th Biennial Conference taking place on...

CSIR assists women-led SMME in developing nutritious food products for underprivileged communities

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation, has been collaborating with small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the chemicals, agro-processing and biotechnology industry to translate research into market-ready products. ...

An assessment of claims regarding health effects of 5G mobile telephony networks

Speculation linking 5G mobile telephony and data networks to a range of health threats, has been rife. Some claims even go to the extent of attributing the current COVID-19 pandemic to the initial rollouts of 5G networks. Unfortunately, a lot of opinions aired do not come with a high degree of cr...