Scientists in the field of human fertility are coming under pressure to rein in maverick researchers whose experiments push ethical boundaries and caused public revulsion this week.
We’re unsure where it came from, have no treatment for it and no idea when or where it will spread next. With containment so far the only defence against Sars, the race is on to find out how infectious it is, the incubation period and its transmission route.
Researchers in Canada are testing a prototype vaccine that could halt the spread of brain-wasting diseases such as scrapie, BSE (mad cow’s disease) and its human form, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
analysis Khulekani Mathe Who sets the agenda for Adult Basic Education and Training (Abet) in South Africa? Before 1994 the agenda was set in Pretoria by the National Party government. Underpinned by a theory of uneven development based on racial discrimination, apartheid produced an education system that relegated black people to the bottom of the […]
Apartheid policies turned the Transkei homeland into a disaster area which will take years to repair, writes Louise Flanagan IT’S underfunded, marginalised, demoralised, has little infrastructure or communications, and its services are collapsing. It’s one of apartheid’s worst legacies and it’s now the Eastern Cape’s biggest nightmare. It’s the former Transkei homeland. Since the April […]