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Contain the risks in peer-to-peer file-sharing
17 Oct 2011
Zille woos future business strategists
17 Oct 2011
What Facebook reveals
17 Oct 2011
Divers come clean
17 Oct 2011
Conference award for safety specialist
17 Oct 2011
Science students showcase their skills
17 Oct 2011
Big up for Pink Week
17 Oct 2011
UCT hails loyal long-service staffers
17 Oct 2011
UCT molecular genetics expert to explain how novelty and diversity evolve in plants and animals
Data from large-scale DNA sequencing projects in the last 2 decades has shown that common sets of genes regulate development in animals and plants respectively. Given the remarkable conservation of these genes, a key challenge becomes understanding how morphological diversity has evolved in plants and animals. Professor Nicola Illing, of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Cape Town, will present evidence that novelty evolves from the recycling of existing genetic regulatory loops, rather than from the de novo appearance of new genes via protein evolution. Prof Illing will discuss her current research interests in Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics in her inaugural lecture, "Evo-devo: Clues to morphological and functional diversity in bats and resurrection plants".
17 Oct 2011
News in brief - 14 October
14 Oct 2011
Handwashing a life saver
14 Oct 2011
It Gets Better, Tutu and UCT members tell young people
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has joined University of Cape Town (UCT) students and staff, local civil society organisations and high-profile individuals, to create It Gets Better - Cape Town: a collection of 18 videos that form the first South African contribution to a global video campaign targeting sexual minorities who experience discrimination in secondary schools and beyond. The group includes the captain of the UCT Rugby Team, the editor of the Varsity student newspaper, members of the UCT Student Representative Council, university staff members and students.
12 Oct 2011
UCT fights stigmatisation of homosexuals
11 Oct 2011
News in brief - 10 October
10 Oct 2011
Zille woos future business strategists
10 Oct 2011
Eyewitnesses accounts - perils and pragmatics
10 Oct 2011
UCT student team scoops research prize at transplant conference
For the first time, the South African Transplant Society (SATS) has presented its annual prize for the best original research presentation to 2 final-year medical students, for their research on the correlation between how a kidney functions in the first few days after transplantation, and the long-term outcome of the transplanted kidney.
10 Oct 2011