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This Month's Features
The Marula tree to marula beer
 A goldmine for local communities: food, furniture, coffee,
drums and even beer. Can biotechnology benefit local marula beer?
Butchered: Nairobi park  lions
'Red'
is the last adult male left at a one time tourist hotspot where 48
lions have been butchered in recent years.
 New
cancer drugs
Hope for colorectal cancer patients as scientists unveil
latest drug research. Find out how Erbitux targets the right
receptor.
Technology
 Steelpan
science
The steelpan - music to your ears. Science or art or both?
Discover the African origins of this amazing instrument, its high
notes and low notes.
Saving the Timbuktu  manuscripts
These
13th century Mali manuscripts hold a key to centuries old expertise in
science. Efforts underway to rescue these priceless gems.
Health
 Designer bone saves limb
A unique partnerships saves a man's arm with the design of
locally produced and manufactured titanium prosthesis.
 Pregnant
pause in memory
Pregnant and you can't remember where you parked your car? Relax - it
may just be those extra hormones.
 SA's
antiretroviral programme
What are the impacts on people's expectations, healthcare
workers, counselling and testing?
Transplant
technology
Breakthrough in transplant technology: donor kidney "protects
itself"
Invention
Invention:
the mother of necessity
Never a truer statement for an inventor when his inspiration is the
impoverished farmers of Ethiopia. Why wait for high tech?
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In this Issue
Computer viruses: it's rough out there in cyberspace this month
Astronomy
Keep an eye out for Mars, the red planet, closer now than it's been for 60
000 years.
SA man beats the experts to discovery of a powerful stellar explosion.
Conservation
Silencing the birds. Sugarbirds paying the price with poisoned
proteas.
Contrary to popular belief, bananas are in fact not going extinct.
Extinction alert: Tanzania's famous dugongs to follow the dodo?
Education
It's elementary:
how people, places, planets, mythical gods and the Orient have inspired
the naming of the elements from California to behind the then Iron
Curtain.
Open access to scientific research. Is
a solution at hand?
Malaria
Should Kenya's ban on the toxic DDT be lifted
to save lives from malaria?
Malaria epidemic in Ethiopia worsens.
Resistance to available drugs.
Competitions
SA science lens: enter the annual science photography competition.
Funding/Jobs
Calls for applications and
nominations.
Science jobs/ research posts in biological
sciences and more.
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