SA, Korea in biotech partnership
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has partnered with Korean state institution KRIBB to form the South Africa-Korea Biotechnology Research Centre.
SA joins FLOSSWorld project
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the University of the Western Cape are to participate in a global research project looking into the development and uptake of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) in the developing world.
Exporting SA geranium oil
The geranium, historically one of South Africa's earliest exports, is bringing trade to the country once more. In a landmark deal for SA's budding bio-extract industry, half a ton of essential oil extracted from geraniums organically grown in South Africa has been exported to a major international cosmetics brand.
Indigenous plant benefits San
The San community will receive between R8-million and R12-million from the CSIR over the next four years for an indigenous plant that is being developed into a slimming drug by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
KZN’s flood radar ‘nowcasters’
A KwaZulu-Natal professor and a team of researchers are developing technology that will help predict floods up to six hours in advance - buying precious response time for emergency authorities - using radar technology and computer-based mathematical techniques.
Research opportunities
South Africa spends around R5-billion a year on research and development and is recognised as a world leader in several fields, including organismic biology, earth sciences, astronomy and clinical medicine.
