Can the humble fruit fly help create a flourishing African scientific community?
by Marta Vicente-Crespo in Kampala from on (#HY5Z)
A small institute in Kampala is cultivating a regional network of researchers, using an inexpensive lab model based on the fruit fly
African biomedical scientists face important challenges - poor training, poorer infrastructure and scarce resources.
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