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UCT scientists scoop Human Frontier Science Program Award to study the genetics of floral asymmetry in South African plants
MCB's Prof. Jill Farrant (holder of the SARChI chair in Molecular Plant Physiology) has been featured in an episode of the award-winning PBS documentary "H2O: The Molecule That Made Us".
MCB Research Day, held on the 29th of August 2019, a great success.
Five substantial grants have been awarded to women researchers, including MCB's Prof. Janet Hapgood, to make space for more women’s voices to be heard.
Researchers at the University of Cape Town’s Biopharming Research Institute (BRU) have
created a promising new vaccine candidate to help prevent the devastating effects of African
Horse Sickness (AHS). And they’re producing it in tobacco plants.