Tag: sub-Saharan Africa

  • Nation & World

    Was Facebook the original social network? Not by a long shot

    New research produces earliest DNA from Sub-Saharan Africa and a more complete look at ancient peoples.

    5 minutes
    Hora Rockshelter in Malawi,
  • Nation & World

    From chance meeting, a chance to save lives

    Harvard scientists have developed a new test for sickle cell disease that provides results in just 12 minutes and costs as little as 50 cents — far faster and cheaper than other tests.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    One vaccine for two strains?

    Harvard Medical School researchers believe that identifying the properties of the herpes viruses found in Africa could open the door to developing a more potent vaccine against an infection now rampant in sub-Saharan Africa.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reducing malnutrition

    The world is going to fall well short of achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, by 2015.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Committee on African Studies awards grants

    The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded 13 research grants for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students to travel to sub-Saharan Africa during the summer of 2007. The undergraduates are juniors who will be doing research for their senior honors theses. The graduate students will be conducting research for their doctoral dissertations.

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