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UCT scientist wins award for work on brain seizures

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The continent's first genomics centre paves the way for Afrocentric medicine

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HealthcareBirth control injection could increase HIV risk by 40%

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Study: African surgical patients twice as likely to die

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Mouse study shows how alcohol may cause cancer

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Genetic tool that can doom a species under UN review

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Genome editing reveals key gene for human embryo growth

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22 Sep 2017

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