Following a Makana Municipality statement regarding the detection of E. coli in Makana’s water supply last month, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Biotechnology Innovation Centre (RUBIC) availed its water-testing capabilities to the community to provide consistent and transparent monitoring of the effectiveness of the municipality’s disinfection measures.

Last week, the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Biotechnology Innovation Centre (RUBIC) officially launched a water testing facility at the Biological Sciences building.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Masters of Biotechnology candidate, Ntobeko Songcata, recently won the Eastern Cape Innovation Challenge Award for his MSc project pitch.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, home to the oldest biotechnology academic programme in South Africa, boasts no less than seven graduate distinctions from the Biotechnology Innovation Centre this past October.

Siphumze Bani is a Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 October 2021 graduate who started his journey at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in 2013. He has now completed his Masters in Biotechnology (distinction) with an impressive thesis project on water desalination through the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Biotechnology Innovation Centre (RUBIC).

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and the Makhanda Circle of Unity hosted a youth chat about the COVID-19 vaccine and vaccine myths yesterday.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Director of the DST Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation, Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong, has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Two Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 PhD candidates walked away with a first place tie in the national Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition last week.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Professor in Biotechnology, Janice Limson and Professor Emma Lubaale in the Faculty of Law were recently inaugurated as Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) respectively.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Community Engagement (RUCE), in partnership with Food & Trees for Africa, has launched its Victory Gardens drive, which aims to encourage Makhanda citizens to start their own vegetable gardens in order to foster increased food security.

This Friday you would not have found your Grocott’s Mail at the supermarket as usual, and here’s why.

Early detection methods of childhood-impacting diseases are generally either unavailable, unreliable or too expensive in developing countries. A partnership between Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Biotechnology Innovation Centre (RUBIC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Global Innovation Centre (GIC), will see these challenges being addressed.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 academics are assisting grade 11 Stutterheim High School pupil, Konwaba Putsu, to realise his dream. The 17-year-old Konwaba has aspirations of discovering what can be done to stop cancer from spreading in the body.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 academics are assisting grade 11 Stutterheim High School pupil, Konwaba Putsu, to realise his dream.

Globally, the proportion of female scientists and women working in technology is still much lower than that of men. This is why, when Tanya Accone, head of UNICEF’s Global Innovation Centre (GIC), and Professor Janice Limson, Director of the Biotechnology Innovation Centre at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in South Africa, met, they recognised an opportunity to do valuable work together.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 lab technical officer, Luyolo Mapekula (Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology), and Biotechnology Innovation Centre (RUBIC) Head of Department, Dr Earl Prinsloo, were instrumental in securing a 3D printer donation to DD Siwisa Primary School as part of the General Electric (GE) Additive Education Program.

Longer-lasting and more cost-effective ways of testing for pregnancy and whether HIV treatments are working effectively, as well as checking for the top two strains of malaria, are being tested by scientists at a South African university. These could ultimately help save lives in emerging countries, they believe.

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In a first-ever public launch of technologies developed by the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Biotechnology Innovation Centre, a student prototype beat over 300 innovations at the national Innovation Bridge Showcase and bagged R50 000 in prize money for Best Prototype: Fieldlab.

UNICEF’s Global Innovation Centre (GIC) has partnered with Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Biotechnology Innovation Centre to support the research of biological sensors.

Exciting Studentships and Job Vacancies available in the BioSENs Research Group under the supervision of Prof Janice Limson and Dr Ronen Fogel

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Elna Schütz recently interviewed staff and students of the RUBIC on the latest innovations and works in progress in biotechnology.

PIONEERING the way forward in the treatment and care for people living with HIV and Aids, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 has just finalised a R3-million partnership with Unicef.

Biotechnology Innovation Centre PhD student Lance Ho, is not just a part of the team developing tools for early disease detection like HIV and malaria, he is also a hot-shot in the archery world.

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Dr Ronen Fogel had a happy childhood, in a family that prepared him and set him on his path as a scientist, without perhaps having been deliberately fashioned to do so.

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Hot on the heels of the announcement of her first runner-up award in the 'Distinguished Young Woman in the Life, Natural and Engineering Sciences' category of the 2011 South African Women in Science Awards (WISA), Professor Janice Limson presented a lecture at Eden Grove as the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award for 2010.

Professor Janice Limson, of the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology at Rhodes has been announced as a finalist in the 2011 South African Women in Science Awards (WISA).