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As the world is still grappling with the pandemic and its devastating effects, the need for rapid and affordable means of communicating and accessing scientific knowledge is strikingly apparent. Earlier this year the international scientific community, as represented by the ISC membership, recognized the need for a change through a resolution committing to work to reform scientific publishing. In this blog, we explore how Africa – similarly to the rest of the world – has adapted to the pressing realities … Continue reading “THE PANDEMIC AND THE CHANGING PUBLISHING SCIENCE IN AFRICA”

ICGEB Grants are awarded following consideration and shortlisting by a Team working under the ICGEB Appointed Governor/ICGEB Liaison Officer for Kenya (Director General, NACOSTI).

What does science look like to you? Is it a flashlight illuminating the dark? Or is it the shadows dancing on the walls, elusive and obscure? Really, it’s both. It’s what we know and what we don’t know. The co-existence of those truths is what makes science such an incredibly important tool to understanding our world. And never has it been more vital to decipher science’s complexities for a wider audience. We face unprecedented circumstances and intricate challenges. But science … Continue reading “UNLOCKING SCIENCE”

The Omicron variant: what do we know so far? In a podcast interview for the Lancet, Salim Abdool Karim, renowned epidemiologist and the ISC’s new Vice-President for Outreach and Engagement, describes the discovery of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant and what we know so far. He also provides a more personal view of the impacts the new variant has on countries like South Africa, and on the need for international collaboration to deal with threats. What does science look like to … Continue reading “THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED TO BOOST UNDERSTANDING OF CASCADING AND UNCERTAIN RISKS”

Two former NIH directors call for a cabinet-level department to formulate long-range science policy and oversee technology development.

A new cotton variety with good agronomic performance and great fibre quality developed within a short turn-around time using nuclear techniques in Bangladesh. (Photo: K. Islam/Cotton Development Board, Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh) Cotton is the oldest known and most used textile around the world. While it took around 3,000 years to understand how to cultivate and process the first wild cotton, now with nuclear techniques, new and improved varieties have been developed in Bangladesh in record time: just five years. … Continue reading “NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES HELP BANGLADESHI EXPERTS DEVELOP IMPROVED COTTON VARIETIES IN RECORD TIME”

Remarks to the 2021 Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of States Parties RemarksAmbassador Bonnie Denise Jenkins, Under Secretary For Arms Control And International Security 2021 Biological Weapons Convention Meeting Of States Parties Geneva, SwitzerlandNovember 22, 2021 (As prepared) Mr. Chairman, The Biological Weapons Convention is one of the key international security agreements that guard against the threat of weapons of mass destruction. It is an honor for me to join you and colleagues from other States Parties, and I assure you … Continue reading “REMARKS TO THE 2021 BWC MEETING OF STATES PARTIES”

For Immediate Release Thursday, 18th, November 2021 Results of a randomized controlled trial in Kenya brings new energy to eliminate cervical cancer worldwide In the push to eliminate cervical cancer, researchers delivered hopeful news Nov. 17 at the 34th International Papillomavirus Conference in Toronto. A randomized controlled trial of 2,275 women in Kenya showed that a single dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was highly effective. The current standard for women is a three-dose regimen. “These findings are a … Continue reading “STUDY FINDS SINGLE-DOSE HPV VACCINE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE”

AMSTERDAM, May 6 (Reuters) – Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary research laboratory at Wageningen University gave them sugary water as a reward after showing them samples infected with COVID-19. They would get no reward after being shown a non-infected sample. Having got used to … Continue reading “BEES IN THE NETHERLANDS TRAINED TO DETECT COVID-19 INFECTIONS”

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is scheduled to fly to space for the first time as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission launching to the International Space Station. (CNN) – NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins will become the first Black woman on the International Space Station crew.She is set to launch into space in April 2022 on the SpaceX Crew-4 mission, according to NASA.Watkins was selected as an astronaut candidate in 2017 and has been preparing for her first space mission since then. … Continue reading “THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN WOMAN TO TRAVEL TO SPACE”