In an impressive ceremony held in Washington, DC this past Wednesday, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as president and […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cape Town’
An African Success Story
by Kit Vaughan and Gary Kantor It was just over a year ago that the Springboks – South Africa’s national […]
CapeRay Awarded a UK Patent
Cape Town, South Africa, 12 June 2020. CapeRay is pleased to announce the award of a UK Patent (GB2566942) entitled, […]
Where was Peer Review?
The origins of peer review can be traced back over 350 years to the launch of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal […]
Beneath the Hanging Rock
In 45 BC, the Roman philosopher Cicero referred to the “Sword of Damocles” and over time this parable has come to mean […]
A Tutorial on Cancer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
Coming Full Circle
On Friday 6 January 1956, Allan Cormack arrived for work at Groote Schuur Hospital, having been appointed as part-time nuclear physicist, spending […]
BRICS and Technology Transfer
BRICS is the acronym that draws together the national economies of five emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. […]
Celebrating BME@50
Yesterday marked an important milestone for the field of biomedical engineering (BME) in Cape Town as it celebrated its 50th […]
In the Footsteps of Cormack
For the past week, Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, has hosted an international conference entitled “Modern Challenges in Imaging.” Subtitled “In the […]