Skip to content
Primary Menu
  • Home
  • Services
  • Articles
    • Vaccines
    • Mental Health
    • Neuroscience
    • Genetics
    • Science Communication
    • Diseases
    • Drugs
    • Transmission
    • Diagnostics
    • Research
  • About
  • Get in Touch
Science Media Africa

Science For Everyone

Category: Research

  • Home
  • Research
Category:
  • Research

The Scientists path Series

The whole idea of this project is: To give a younger scientist a guide into a science career by learning from others in addition to knowing the diversity of career Continue Reading

Posted On : June 28, 2021 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research

Nairobi is rapidly losing its green spaces: this could open the door to more diseases

Hundreds of trees have been felled along Nairobi’s Uhuru and Waiyaki highways to make space for a new expressway. CELINE CLERY/AFP via Getty Images Eric Fèvre, University of Liverpool and Continue Reading

Posted On : April 2, 2021 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research

Mary Oyiela Abukutsa Onyango- African Scientist

Mary Abukutsa is a dynamic result-oriented, strategic thinker and transformational leader with a personal mission statement that guides her in touching lives through the provision of excellent service with humility Continue Reading

Posted On : January 28, 2021 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research
  • Technology

A Namibian Teenager invents a Sim-Less and Airtime-less Phone

The invention of a secondary school student named Simon Petrus got Namibia’s social media abuzz for the right reasons. Simon Petrus created a mobile phone that works with radio frequencies, no sim card nor Continue Reading

Posted On : January 23, 2021 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research

Microbiology and Quality Assurance

When I joined campus to study  industrial microbiology and biotechnology, I had no idea of where that would lead me. I knew I would end up in a lab somewhere Continue Reading

Posted On : January 3, 2021 Published By : Cullen
Category:
  • Research
  • Vaccines

Explainer: Clinical Trials in Vaccine Development

Development of treatments and interventions is not a walk in the park as it requires intense research, tests, trials, financing and time. It is very possible for an approved treatment Continue Reading

Posted On : December 10, 2020 Published By : Kimutai Valerie
Category:
  • Research

What is Cloning and Types of Cloning

Is your information about cloning accurate? If you enjoy science fiction movies there is a high possibility that you have encountered the ‘cloning’ severally. Cloning is a fascinating technology and I remember Continue Reading

Posted On : November 25, 2020 Published By : Cullen
Category:
  • Research

Interesting Facts About Microbiology

1. The human body has more microbes than there are human cells. In fact, microbes are ten times more than the number of human cells in a living human being. 2. The Continue Reading

Posted On : November 25, 2020 Published By : Cullen
Category:
  • Research

Eight Common Problems with Science literature literature reviews and how to fix them

Researchers regularly review the literature that’s generated by others in their field. This is an integral part of day-to-day research: finding relevant research, reading and digesting the main findings, summarising Continue Reading

Posted On : November 22, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Rant
  • Research

Why a Biochemistry Course is a Bad Idea in Africa

In sci-fi movies, Biochemistry seems to be Lucrative and fun but a nightmare in an African setting. Bright individuals end up telling anyone who wants to do the course to Continue Reading

Posted On : November 18, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research

The ‘science of where’, or GIS, fortified Kenya’s response to COVID-19. Here’s how

Original Author: Peter Macharia, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme The value and potential of geographic information system – or GIS, “the science of where” – has become even more obvious Continue Reading

Posted On : November 6, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research
  • Science Career

Study sheds light on what it takes for women to succeed – or not – in science in Africa

Women are 49.6% of the world’s population. An estimated 70% of the health and social care workforce are women; they deliver care to around 5 billion people. Women are also at the front-line Continue Reading

Posted On : November 1, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Nutrition
  • Research

Salmon becomes world’s first genetically-modified animal to enter food supply

A fast-growing salmon has become the first genetically engineered animal to be approved for human consumption in the United States. 9 things you need to know about GM Salmon GMO Continue Reading

Posted On : October 25, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research
  • Transmission

Kenya Scientists Release Genome sequencing for the Covid-19 Cases in Kenya

Scientists in Kenya have successfully sequenced genomes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic, obtaining important information about the genetic composition of viral strains in 122 of Continue Reading

Posted On : October 14, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research
  • Vaccines

‘We cannot just be testing grounds’: COVID prompts African scientists to call for homegrown vaccines

African scientists say that the COVID-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call that prompts the continent to produce more of its own human vaccines. As a first step, they are Continue Reading

Posted On : October 13, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research

Build Science in Africa

In 10 Years time, the world population has been projected by the UN to be 8.3 billion from the current 7.8 Billion (October 2020) and 3.5 temperature increase. By 2050 Continue Reading

Posted On : October 4, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Diagnostics
  • Diseases
  • Plants
  • Research

KENYAN SCIENTISTS EMBARK ON SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY RESEARCH

The first-ever government-funded research project on Synthetic Biology in Kenya has been launched. The project, funded under the country’s National Research Fund, will employ synthetic biology innovations in addressing intractable Continue Reading

Posted On : September 10, 2020 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research

How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers

Digitisation refers to everything from delivering farming advice via text messaging to interactive voice response. It also includes smart phone applications that link farmers to multimedia advisory content, farm inputs, and Continue Reading

Posted On : July 19, 2019 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri
Category:
  • Research
  • Vaccines

Vaccine Production in Africa: A Feasible Business Model for Capacity Building and Sustainable New Vaccine Introduction

Africa has the highest incidence of mortality caused by infectious diseases, and remarkably does not have the capacity to manufacture vaccines that are essential to reduce mortality, improving life expectancy, Continue Reading

Posted On : March 20, 2019 Published By : Sarah Nyakeri

Archives

Categories

Copyright All rights reserved
Theme: Echo Magazine by ThemeinWP