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العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса; Беларуская ...
African inventions (7 C, 2 P) M. ... Pages in category "Science and technology in Africa" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Great Rift Valley of Africa provides critical evidence for the evolution of early hominins.The earliest tools in the world can be found there as well: An unidentified hominin, possibly Australopithecus afarensis or Kenyanthropus platyops, created stone tools dating to 3.3 million years ago at Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin, eastern Africa.
Principal Investigator at Pharm-Bio Technology and Traditional Medicine Center Executive Chairman of Jena Herbals Uganda Limited . Patrick Engeu Ogwang (born 1 January 1973) is a Ugandan pharmacist , pharmacologist , ethnobotanist , medical researcher and entrepreneur, who serves as an associate professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy ...
Many young people in West and Central Africa have become addicted to drugs with between 5.2% and 13.5% using cannabis, the most widely used illicit substance on the continent, according to the ...
As of 2014 about $140 Billion is spent on research and development of pharmaceuticals which produces 25–35 new drugs annually. Technology, which is transforming science, medicine, and research tools has increased the speed at which we can analyze data but we currently still must test the products which is a lengthy process. [ 3 ]
Depo-Provera was clinically tested on black Rhodesian (now Zimbabwean) women in the 1970s. [1] Once approved, the drug was used as a birth control measure. Women on white-run commercial farms were coerced into accepting Depo-Provera. [5] In 1981, the drug was banned in what was by then Zimbabwe. [5]
Lactic acid, added to the list in 2010 after large-scale production was established, currently holds a market value exceeding US$2.5 billion, primarily used in the production of polylactate. [5] 2009 – Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute uses modified SAN heart genes to create the first viral pacemaker in guinea pigs, now known as iSANs.