Science Policy In Africa

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New malaria vaccine proves highly effective – and COVID shows how quickly it could be deployed

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Adrian Hill Director of the Jenner Institute University of Oxford, writes in celebration of a landmark achievement in Africa’s and the world’s fight against the killer disease malaria. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adrian Hill’s writing on the new malaria vaccine is illuminating as it is the story of another triumph for global health, …

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Inspiration For African Science Policy On Building Next Gen Of Physician-Scientists From The Success Of Crispr Gene Editing tool, Prime Editing – A System That’s Touted As Capable Of Fixing Almost All Genetic Diseases

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On the 21st of October 2019, news filtered of another promising addition to the ever expanding library of Crispr gene editing tools. Prestigious science journal Nature published a paper titled: Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA. In the paper we are introduced to a new system of gene editing called “prime editor” …

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