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    Source: @LightUpScience/Twitter. Richard Slayman is seen here with the surgical team at Massachusetts General Hospital who performed his transplant, led by Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD and Nahel Elias, MD.
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    Post-surgical death stats higher than TB, malaria & HiV combined

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    Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

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    Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

    24 Jan 2019

    Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV
    Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

      23 Jan 2019

    Gregory Scherrer and his collaborators have identified in mice an ensemble of cells that seems to specifically function as an on-off switch for pain aversion. Paul Sakuma
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    Around 18% of previously treated TB cases are drug resistant. Shutterstock
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    #BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

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    An image of a string adhesion between the liver and the intestine. The cell nuclei are stained white. Jonathan Tsai
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      4 Jan 2019

    Michelle Monje and her colleagues found that the chemotherapy drug methotrexate can affect three major types of brain cells, resulting in a phenomenon known as "chemo brain." Steve Fisch
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    Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

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    Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

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    Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, Professor Nicolas Meda and Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr Diane Gashumba
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    7 Feb 2019

    Set of genes predicts severity of dengue
    Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

    4 Feb 2019

    Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock
    What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

    1 Feb 2019

    New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics
    New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics

    31 Jan 2019

    Global evidence suggests that alcohol advertisements increase adolescents’ favourable attitudes towards drinking. Shutterstock
    How easy access to alcohol, and adverts, affect women in South Africa

     30 Jan 2019

    Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock
    Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

     30 Jan 2019

    SU's new BMRI
    Construction starts on SU's Biomedical Research Institute

    28 Jan 2019

    Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?
    Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

    24 Jan 2019

    Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome
    Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

    24 Jan 2019

    Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV
    Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

     23 Jan 2019

    Gregory Scherrer and his collaborators have identified in mice an ensemble of cells that seems to specifically function as an on-off switch for pain aversion. Paul Sakuma
    Researchers discover the brain cells that make pain unpleasant

    18 Jan 2019

    Dr Paige Fox
    New sensor monitors blood flow after vascular surgery

    17 Jan 2019

    Shutterstock
    Why does malaria recur? How pieces of the puzzle are slowly being filled in

     17 Jan 2019

    Around 18% of previously treated TB cases are drug resistant. Shutterstock
    How we used computers to figure out drugs that can beat drug-resistant TB

     16 Jan 2019

    Professor Sally-Ann Cryan
    Breakthrough in TB treatment

    8 Jan 2019

    #BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D
    #BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

    7 Jan 2019

    An image of a string adhesion between the liver and the intestine. The cell nuclei are stained white. Jonathan Tsai
    Surgical adhesions can be treated, prevented in mice

     4 Jan 2019

    Michelle Monje and her colleagues found that the chemotherapy drug methotrexate can affect three major types of brain cells, resulting in a phenomenon known as "chemo brain." Steve Fisch
    Study: Understanding chemo brain

     2 Jan 2019

    Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance
    Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

    19 Dec 2018

    There’s a significant variation in pain sensitivity and tolerance. Shutterstock
    Unpacking pain: what causes it and why it's hard to measure

     19 Dec 2018

    #BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare
    #BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

    18 Dec 2018

    Babies to order. Andrew Crotty/Shutterstock.com
    Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about - it's not likely to happen

     14 Dec 2018

    Professor Musa Mhlanga
    Unravelling how immune genes work

    13 Dec 2018

    Pelindaba
    Necsa board replaced

    10 Dec 2018

    Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies
    Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

    10 Dec 2018

    Nthabiseng Mokoena. Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
    UFS researcher one step closer to treating HIV/Aids

    7 Dec 2018

    Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May
    R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

    5 Dec 2018

    Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, Professor Nicolas Meda and Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr Diane Gashumba
    Addressing neglected tropical diseases

    4 Dec 2018

    He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Nov. 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim of making the world’s first gene-edited babies. AP Photo/Kin Cheung
    How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby - and what health worries may ensue

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    SU study will look at synthetic blood products
    SU study will look at synthetic blood products

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    Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

    31 Oct 2018

    First-for-Africa platform will advance gene research
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