Could cellphone text messages encourage safer sex among homosexual men in Tanzania, where consensual sex among men remains illegal?
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/ 25 October 2004
Tanzania’s first-ever machine for rapid analysis of multiple DNA samples has been welcomed by scientists, who say it will revolutionise their research. Until now, researchers have had to perform a manual analysis that takes 72 hours for a single sample, take a bus to a neighbouring country, or a plane to a First World country.
Kenya has stepped to the forefront of African agricultural biotechnology with the inauguration of a ”level II biosafety greenhouse” in Nairobi that will allow containment of genetically modified crops at the experimental stage. Neighbouring Uganda also has a biotechnology laboratory, which is now carrying out tissue culture of bananas, coffee and other crops.