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A professor from the Department of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU) is documenting symptoms of South Africans suffering from “Long Covid” in an online registry.

If you're a Covid survivor experiencing long Covid symptoms, you can help a local researcher to connect the dots in this big pandemic mystery.

Prof Resia Pretorius of the Dept of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University talks to Pippa Hudson about the research.

News Author: Faadiel Essop Published: 06/05/2021 ​We need “inoculations" against fake news to help safeguard the future of science in a post-truth world, writes Prof Faadiel Essop (Department of Physiological Sciences / Centre for Cardio-metabolic Research in Africa) in an opinion piece for Daily Maverick (5 May). ​Faadiel Essop* Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley. The forwarded WhatsApp message on my phone boldly proclaimed that a post-mortem in Russi...

Share The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) has been awarded $15 million to lead an international collaboration that aims to translate years of clinical research on the mathematical modelling of human physiology. ABI Director, Distinguished Professor Peter Hunter (back) discusses their model of the rat heart with software developers Dr Alan Garny (middle) and Dr Nazanin Ebrahimi (front). Funding for the 12 Labours project been awarded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Emplo...

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Monday, 3 May 2021, 11:15 am The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) has been awarded $15 million to lead an international collaboration that aims to translate years of clinical research on the mathematical modelling of human physiology into clinical practice. Funding for the 12 Labours project been awarded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE’s) Catalyst Strategic Fund, and is one of the largest research grants that MBIE has awarded the University. The p...

Epigenetic endowment of every person has an impact on COVID-19 severity COVID-19, caused by the infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed peoples behavioral patterns since the moment it became a global pandemic. To date, more than 136 million people have suffered from this disease, and more than 2.9 of these have lost their lives. The symptoms of the infection are varied, ranging from people with no clinical symptomatology to those who need hospital admission in the intensive care unit wit...

Manel Esteller, professor of Genetics. Aurora Pujol, IDIBELL researcher. COVID-19, caused by the infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed people’s behavioural patterns since the moment it became a global pandemic. To date, more than 136 million people have suffered from this disease, and more than 2.9 of these have lost their lives. The symptoms of the infection are varied, ranging from people with no clinical symptomatology to those who need hospital admission in the intensive care un...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Differences in the environmental signals utilized as cues to determine alternative diapause between domesticated silkworm and Bombyx mandarina. view more  Credit: Copyright © 2021, Kunihiro Shiomi, Shinshu University Diapause is a phenomenon in which animals and insects foresee changes in the environment and actively reduce metabolism, or halt regular differentiation and development. It is an adaptation strategy for adverse environments such as surviving winters, but a...