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CoviID: new app to avoid future lockdowns
UCT researchers are developing a privacy-centred smartphone app using blockchain technology that could become key to managing future outbreaks of COVID-19.
27 Mar 2020
Parenting out-of-school children during COVID-19
To encourage constructive parenting during the time of COVID-19, the World Health Organization and UNICEF – with partners including UCT researchers – have released resources for parents.
26 Mar 2020
Rethinking policies for the global bio-economy
Reimagining global access and benefit sharing policies can better protect biodiversity and achieve equitable science.
25 Mar 2020
Lessons from the HIV and AIDS pandemic
What histories of past epidemics show is that the biggest danger during pandemics is not necessarily the causative agents, but how people respond to them.
24 Mar 2020
Republished
Best paper award for UCT TB vaccine research
A paper on TB vaccine research by UCT professors has been selected as the best paper of the year for 2019 by the International Society for Vaccines.
24 Mar 2020
TB: Scientists know a great deal, but there’s still more to learn
South Africa has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection globally, with almost 400 000 patients treated annually.
24 Mar 2020
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Panic buying underscores South Africa's inequalities
In South Africa, the majority of consumers are unable to fill up a trolley in the best of times, let alone finance a serious stockpile.
23 Mar 2020
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Calls for fair pay and fair conditions in the gig economy
The Fairwork Project highlights the precarious nature of work in the South African gig economy and underlines the risks faced by gig workers in light of COVID-19.
20 Mar 2020
Selective dorsal rhizotomy 30 years on
UCT’s Dr Nelleke Langerak shares the findings of selective dorsal rhizotomy gait analyses 30 years after the study first began.
20 Mar 2020
Water in the Anthropocene in South Africa
As South Africa’s Water Week continues, Dr Kevin Winter from UCT’s Future Water institute considers South Africa’s current and future water situation.
20 Mar 2020
Climate change and southern Africa’s emerging food crisis
UCT researchers explore whether climate change is responsible for the late rains and drought currently affecting Mozambique, Zimbabwe and southern Zambia.
20 Mar 2020
Water (in)security: the art of resilience
Research in UCT’s Global Risk Governance Programme has taken a look at the effects of people opting for off-grid solutions in response to recent periods of drought.
18 Mar 2020
Understanding the glymphatic system
UCT News caught up with Dr Adhil Bhagwandin ahead of his presentation on the glymphatic system at the Neuroscience Institute’s inaugural research symposium.
17 Mar 2020
Use what you have before you take from others
At the start of South Africa’s National Water Week, Professor Neil Armitage looks at the City of Cape Town’s current and future sources of water.
16 Mar 2020
Centre has ‘Africanised’ neuroscience
The world-class Neuroscience Centre at Groote Schuur Hospital was established to address South Africa’s high burden of disease in mental and neurological disorders.
12 Mar 2020
SA women take the lead in structural biology
In keeping with the “Generation Equality” theme of International Women’s Day (8 March), a truly remarkable achievement by South African women scientists deserves to be celebrated.
12 Mar 2020
Hair relaxers tested by UCT lab found to be corrosive to skin
According to a study by scientists from UCT, all commercially sold hair relaxers tested were found to be at pH levels that are corrosive to skin.
09 Mar 2020
Eastern Cape spring is getting drier – here’s why
PhD candidate Precious Mahlalela presented her research on the Eastern Cape’s worsening spring rainfall at the recent “Ocean Meets Sky” symposium at UCT.
06 Mar 2020
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