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Continue reading →: Fecal microbiota transplantation in human metabolic diseases: From a murky past to a bright future?
by Jesse Conradie Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has proven to be an effective treatment in recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections. Long term side effects have not been established to date. The direct link between the gut microbiota and almost 95% of human disease has raised interest in the therapeutic application of…
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Continue reading →: Grateful for 2022
by Tayla Kebonte Being a part of the honours Neuroscience & Physiology class of 2022 has been a great privilege. My curiosity about the brain and its mysterious workings has been nourished by lecturers and my peers. I particularly enjoyed the Advanced Cellular Neuroscience module – I felt that I…
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Continue reading →: Defining my future clinician-scientist career on my own terms
by Asande Vilane At the beginning of last year, myself and a number of my 3rd year MBChB peers enrolled into the Molecular Medicine program: an adjunct course which aims to give aspiring clinician-scientists a background in basic science knowledge and techniques. This journey has since taken us into the…
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Continue reading →: Reawakening of insulin production in Pancreatic cells from Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) donor patient
by Nimra Khan The global disease burden of diabetes is 536.6 million people worldwide. Diabetes can be divided into Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that destroys insulin-producing Beta (β) cells in the pancreatic islets (Figure 1). Insulin is a hormone…
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Continue reading →: Far from Home
by Precious Kunyenje Listening to good girl by Lucky Dube with my father while he escorted me to the airport, is but the last memory I have from home. Where his words could not reach, music was the way he could explain what was in his heart. The mixed emotions…
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Continue reading →: Healthcare Inequality in South Africa
by Emma Gamble Reference de Villiers, K. Bridging the health inequality gap: an examination of South Africa’s social innovation in health landscape. Infect Dis Poverty 10, 19 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-021-00804-9
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Continue reading →: Autism – Should We Be Leveraging Neuroplasticity?
by Talya Kebonte Can you imagine a world where you aren’t able to pick up on the emotions of people around you? What would it be like if you couldn’t sense the sombre mood of a vigil and burst out into belly laughs while everyone around you was mourning? What…
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