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NewsUK to invest £210 million in global effort to monitor antimicrobial resistance
Funds will support upgrades to laboratories and staff training
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NewsAfrica plans a network of genomics centres of excellence to tackle disease
Proposed $200 million programme to improve continent’s health would begin with two pilot centres
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NewsAfrica lays out plan to boost science economy
Pilot European and African Union programme aims to boost early-career researchers with fellowships of up to €500,000
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NewsLaunch of African crystallography association signals continent’s plans to grow this field
African Crystallographic Association sees important future for the science for the continent’s industry
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PodcastFexinidazole
The World Health Organisation hope to eradicate sleeping sickness within our lifetimes. Jamie Durrani looks at a drug that may make it possible.
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BusinessSolar-powered water purification
Majico’s photocatalytic water kiosks are increasing access to affordable drinking water in Tanzania
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BusinessFighting fake medicines
RxAll’s handheld scanner assesses drug quality in real time via a smartphone
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OpinionThe case for South Africa as the next pharma hub
Flow chemistry could drive regional manufacturing in Africa
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PodcastMelarsoprol
Cases of sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis – are in decline, dropping 86% in Africa between 2000 and 2014. Gege Li explores the role that this toxic, arsenic-based medication has to play.
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NewsThe Mpemba effect: fact or fiction?
Why freezing ice cream 50 years ago put science in hot water
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CareersMoving to South Africa
With a thriving chemical industry, the country could offer an exciting new life
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ResearchQuick test on pinprick of blood could help stop Ebola in its tracks
Portable Raspberry Pi-based device accurately detects viruses in micro droplet of whole blood
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CareersThe chemist who started a charity
How Víctor Molina Navas is using his skills to improve lives in Africa
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OpinionTime to act on conflict minerals
We must end the human cost of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold
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NewsHow we are fighting tropical diseases
Repellents and vaccines are useful but still need further improvement
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CareersWhy I mummified a taxi driver
Stephen Buckley explains how chemistry has rewritten ancient history
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BusinessOCP to invest $3.7bn in Ethiopian fertiliser plant
Output from joint venture between Ethiopian government and Moroccan state phosphate group will exceed domestic demand