Two scientists, Victor Ambros (UMASS Chan Medical School in the US) and Gary Ruvkun (Harvard Medical School in the US), have won the 2024 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.

Loa loa infections affect up to 20 million people in Central and West Africa, but options for treatment and control are widely inadequate. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports.

Woutersen thought of a unique use of this tool. I think the best lesson from the experiment, at least for me, is that when a drunk worm is wrapped around a lamppost and a sober worm passes by, he ...

Analysis - A major health challenge of our time is when drugs no longer work to treat infections. This happens when the agents that cause infections - they may be bacteria, viruses or fungi - become ...

It is quite ironic that the DA is now embroiled in its own cadre deployment scandal, courtesy of the Minister of Agriculture, ...

There are some types of worms you definitely don't want to see in your garden. Earthworms, however, are often heralded as the unsung heroes of your green space, playing a crucial role in soil health ...

Africa is already being heavily affected by climate change. Between 1991 and 2023, the African continent warmed at a rate of 0.3°C per decade, a rate slightly faster than the global average.

The UNESCO Chairs and Partners Forum Transforming Knowledge for Africa’s Future, convened 30 September - 2 October 2024, aims to strengthen interdisciplinary and collaborative research capacity in ...

Competition will be fierce with only one guaranteed spot available to Mali and Ghana (Group I), Nigeria and South Africa (Group C), and Senegal and DR Congo (Group B). The first two matchdays are in ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

Jimmy Carter consoles a young patient having a Guinea worm removed from her body in Savelugu, Ghana, in February 2007. The ...

Small resources stocks have been drained as capital flowed into big tech, but a new rate cutting cycle could inject life back ...