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By Ayanda Mandlana When I began my Honours in Medical Science (Neuroscience and Physiology), I was excited, curious, and slightly nervous about the unknown. But I soon realized that Honours is not so much about getting skilled in lab work or writing a thesis, it’s about being a scientist in…
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By Ayanda Mandlana Diabetes not only affects blood sugar, but it also silently destroys vision through a diseaseknown as diabetic retinopathy. It is the major cause of preventable blindness worldwide andis expected to affect over 191 million by 2030 [1]. The vision-stealing disease begins with aleaky blood-retinal barrier (BRB), the…
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