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South Africa apex court reverses GMO approval
After an arduous nine-year legal battle, a full bench of the supreme court of appeal (SCA) has set aside the commercial approval of a drought-tolerant genetically modified (GM) variety of maize....Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 10:44hrs | 1865 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cancer patient among thousands to trial personalised vaccines
Thousands of NHS cancer patients in England are expected to get access to trials of a new type of treatment using vaccines to fight their disease.Thirty hospitals so far have signed up to the ...Published: 02 Jun 2024 at 09:07hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Mopani worm porridge, blood samples
SOME parents and guardians in Gwanda's Mawane district, Matebeleland South province, have expressed fear after a group of people collected blood samples from learners as part of the national school fe...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Region to get more rains in next 3 weeks
The Southern African rainfall forecast for December-February has experts predicting normal to above normal rainfall for the next three weeks.The experts have said there will be need for farmer...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
What are AOD-9604's advantages?
AOD-9604 is a peptide segment from the C-terminus of HGH attached, but what does that mean, and what are AOD-9604's advantages? One of the 20 amino acids required to create proteins is added at the en...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 16:30hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Stalinist approach to COVID-19 vaccines only fuels more hesitancy and skepticism!
The easiest way to make someone mistrust and distrust you (arousing suspicions about you), is to act as if you are hiding something from him....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 08:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Best home remedies for pimples
If acne is plaguing you, then quit wasting money on expensive creams and gels. The best treatment for pimples on your face is actually hidden in your home?Aloe vera with lemon juiceWhe...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Moderna starts human trials of experimental mRNA HIV vaccine
United States pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna last Wednesday started trials of its experimental mRNA HIV vaccine.Moderna has enrolled 56 healthy adults without HIV to test the...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 10:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Pig producers struggle for maize supplies
SMALLHOLDER pig producers, accounting for 80% of the country's pig producers, are reportedly struggling to access maize as the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has not availed an allocation for them, rende...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The Zimbabwe zumbani story
IT is my pleasure to tell our own Zimbabwean story about one of our local plants and its benefits.In my early years as a growing scientist, I realised that if I wanted to find out about our lo...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Michael Bhebhe
Christmas fever grips Bulawayo
HUNDREDS of people yesterday thronged supermarkets in Bulawayo to make last-minute shopping ahead of Christmas Day today. Shop attendants said they recorded much business with many outlets res...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
10 Top Takeaways from the August 2020 Protein Challenge Webinar
The disruption precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic has driven the world virtual. Digital meetings and webinars (seminars on the web) are now the new normal.While there are now webinars fo...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 20:29hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Mandivenga named Zimbabwe Rugby Academy skipper
Zimbabwe Rugby Academy has named Brendan Mandivenga as the team's captain ahead of their inaugural stint in the SuperSport Rugby Challenge in South Africa.Mandivenga has since High School been...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
The Rhodes Trust announces Historic Class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars
The Rhodes Trust today announces a record-breaking class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars. This cohort, who will arrive at Rhodes House, Oxford, in October 2019, features young people from all fields of stu...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Agencies
He milks snake venom to save lives
In the laboratory at his Marlborough home in Harare Ben Vermulen was trying to milk a huge Cape cobra by manoeuvring its razor sharp fangs through a rubber sheath on a plastic vial - the way he had do...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
The truth about Shakeology
First of all, I must say that I adore this product! I started using it at the end of the first phase of my first round of the P90X, and since then I have not missed a day. I really like it and it's al...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 13:28hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Raw food treatment for cancer - Alternative cancer treatments
The Editor,I thought this information can help improve someone's quality of life.https://www.cancertutor.com/rawfood/This is a very potent cancer treatment; however, it should ...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Amacimbi processing plant for Beitbridge
Women and youths in Beitbridge district are set to benefit from the establishment of a Mopani worm processing plant after the government sourced funding from the African Development Bank for the proje...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison system in shambles
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has said prisons and mental hospitals have become extremely dangerous facilities operating in a perpetual state of crisis, where prisoners live in barbaric ...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leafy vegetables into your garden
A garden can be defined as a piece of land next to a house, meant for growing flowers, fruits or vegetables. A garden with a variety of rape, spinach, lettuce, okra, spider flower, moringa, pigweed, b...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 10:10hrs | 14 | by Praxedis Dube, Rico Ihle, Wim Heijman and Paul Struik
Lost crops: Food for thought for Zimbabwe
Many do remember the yesteryear song of Oliver Mtukudzi "Tsika dzedu" in which the musician pitched the importance of the traditional way of living, when people used to consume traditional leafy veget...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 18:44hrs | 4 | by Praxedis Dube1, Rico Ihle1, Wim Heijman1 and Paul Struik2
Kariba benefits on Telone Provide-A-Bin programme
Telone has finally headed for the Ultimate tourist destination Kariba to officially handover bins to the Municipality. Saturday the 22nd of July will see a cleanup campaign from Kariba Telone Exchange...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 16:36hrs | | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye - Patsaka Correspondent
Mnangagwa says, 'torture of arrested persons forbidden'
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the torture of arrested persons is forbidden as the country is party to the international treaty against the practice.The VP was responding...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
STI detecting condoms
Three schoolboys behind a colour-changing, STI-detecting condom say they've been contacted by a contraceptive company about their idea.Daanyaal Ali, Chirag Shah, both 14, and Muaz Nawaz, 13, w...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman seeks help to undergo kidney transplant
A RUSAPE woman, Mollen Nyamhotsi, who was diagnosed with a kidney disease and chronic renal failure, is appealing to the public for assistance to secure funds to travel to India for a kidney transplan...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
FC1 female condom phased out
Family planning stakeholders have announced that the initial female condom FC1 has been phased out while a new product has been introduced.The stakeholders have recommended a second generatio...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Commercial moringa project a profitable business
Harare - Commercial cultivation of Moringa tree is taking root at Nyamashato primary in Murewa as the Rotary club come on board to add value to thousands of the plant they have planted at Heather ...Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 12:57hrs | | by Freeman Makopa
Gendering Agriculture - Women spearhead efforts to feed the continent
Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a repo...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 21:10hrs | | by Nirit Ben-Ari
Researchers find simple way to create stem cells
WASHINGTON - Chinese researchers said Thursday they have developed an "easy and safe way" to create stem cells, a breakthrough that could greatly promote the development of so-called therapeutic cloni...Published: 19 Jul 2013 at 07:16hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Chinese biologists find new method to improve cell reprogramming efficiency
LONDON - Sequential introduction of the proteins known to reprogram cells could improve the efficiency of cell reprogramming, according to a new study reported in Nature Cell Biology on Sunday....Published: 27 May 2013 at 05:55hrs | 3 | by Tech Reporter
Four new rare bird flu cases reported in China
Beijing - China reported Tuesday that four more people in one province were seriously sickened by a bird flu virus new to humans while cities along the eastern seaboard stepped up public health measu...Published: 02 Apr 2013 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Garbage collection, disposal is important
There is a public outcry throughout Zimbabwe about the dirty conditions of most of the country's urban centres, a situation that worsens daily as garbage accumulates in so-called sanitary lanes....Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 06:18hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
High protein, low carb diet increases risk of heart disease and stroke - Research
A study carried out by Swedish and US researchers, shows that food rich in protein with a lot of meat but small carbohydrates increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.Researchers monitor...Published: 27 Jun 2012 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why some African prostitutes manage to escape HIV infection: Research
A Canadian research team has found more evidence that could point to new avenues for developing a possible HIV vaccine or anti-microbials. These findings could explain why some African prostitu...Published: 13 Feb 2012 at 17:59hrs | | by Moyo Roy
How HIV infection begins
What does HIV do to the CD4 cells?HIV is a devious enemy: It attacks the CD4 cells (or generals of the immune system) directly, which means that the immune ...Published: 20 Jan 2012 at 08:11hrs | | by -
Stopping influenza evolution before it starts: Study
If you get vaccinated against the flu and then become infected with the virus, your body mounts an immune response that prevents you from getting sick. However, that pressure from the immune system ca...Published: 20 Dec 2011 at 11:46hrs | | by Anne Trafton
Older women destined to develop Alzheimer's have high levels of a pregnancy protein
Scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop Alzheimer's Disease have high blood levels of a protein linked to pregnancy years before showing symptoms. Their report appears in ACS'...Published: 01 Oct 2011 at 09:10hrs | | by Kathy Jones
Swine Flu: know the symptoms
Following the country's high alert for the H1N1 virus make sure you know the symptoms of the disease. DescriptionSwine flu, or pandemic influe...Published: 15 Jun 2011 at 14:05hrs | 3 | by Moyo Roy
Cockroaches cause asthma in kids!
Cockroaches have been identified as a possible explanation for dramatic neighbourhood variations in asthma rates among New York City children.In some neighbourhoods, 19% - nearly 1 in 5 - of ...Published: 14 Jun 2011 at 19:28hrs | | by Parent24
Top 10: ways to prevent breast cancer
No,10 Lose weight Being overweight or obese has been found to increase breast cancer risk, especially for women after menopause, when -- because the ov...Published: 03 Aug 2011 at 21:19hrs | | by Michele Borboa, MS
With science, aging is dead
Imagine what the world would be if Robert Mugabe, Josh uMdalawethu Nkomo, Adolf Hitler, Iddi Amin, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi hanged around for more than two centuri...Published: 06 Mar 2011 at 22:26hrs | | by Byo24News
Pigs share 98percent of human genes misleading: Australian scientist
The sheer fact that pigs and humans are mammals means that we share some genes, but it is simplistic to put an actual figure on the amount of genetic material we have in common, Australian scientist...Published: 03 Jan 2011 at 17:13hrs | | by Byo24
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