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UCT professor highlights dangers of iron deficiency disorder during pregnancy
UCT’s Professor Vernon Louw said an iron deficiency during pregnancy can result in enormous post birth ramifications for the unborn baby.
17 Aug 2021
COVID-19 orphanhood is a ‘hidden pandemic’
More than 1.5 million children worldwide have lost their primary caregivers – at least one parent or grandparent – to COVID-19.
16 Aug 2021
Women’s Month: Policy manager turns research into action for a better future
Ziyanda Stuurman’s work at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab involves turning academic research into blueprints for actionable policies.
13 Aug 2021
Why population immunity is not a realistic goal in Africa’s bid to control COVID-19
In public health, an important goal of vaccination and immunisation is to reach population or herd immunity. This is why the term comes up often in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it helps to be clear about what it means.
13 Aug 2021
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HIV infection may be driving drug resistance in tuberculosis
Results published recently in The Lancet Microbe detail analysis of 10 years’ health data, showing a relationship between HIV infection and acquisition of rifampicin resistance by tuberculosis.
13 Aug 2021
UCT team nets inaugural agri-entrepreneurship prize
PhD candidate Julian Kanjere and his team have brought home the inaugural Inqola FEED Innovation Prize for their blockchain enabled food traceability platform, FoodPrint.
12 Aug 2021
Women’s Month: Confronting legal dissonance in South Africa
Department of Public Law senior lecturer Jameelah Omar’s work focuses on scrutinising the status quo regarding law in South Africa.
12 Aug 2021
Serendipitous discovery leads scientists to new galaxies in the sky
Scientists from UCT’s Department of Astronomy form part of a larger team of researchers who have discovered 20 new galaxies.
11 Aug 2021
T cells face off against variants to boost COVID-19 immunity
University of Cape Town virologists have shown that the body’s T cells maintain 85% of their capacity to detect variants of COVID-19.
11 Aug 2021
Women’s Month: A living wage enables people to choose dignity
Associate Professor Ines Meyer speaks to UCT News about her research into how to improve the lives of workers by instituting a living wage.
05 Aug 2021
It’s time to put children first – from response to recovery
An advocacy brief series by the Children’s Institute serves as a guide to ensure that children are better prioritised in response and recovery plans.
04 Aug 2021
Hate speech and the right to freedom of expression
Professor Pierre de Vos reflects on a recent Constitutional Court judgment and its implications for hate speech.
04 Aug 2021
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Alan Pifer Award: A hat-tip to geneticist Professor Ambroise Wonkam
UCT’s Prof Ambroise Wonkam is one of two recipients of the 2020 Alan Pifer Award.
03 Aug 2021
A recipe for homegrown vaccines in plants: water, light and sugar
A collaborative study has shed new light on how vaccine production in plants is impacted by the host plant machinery.
03 Aug 2021
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