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African Women in Agriculture Research and Development is helping researchers bring the fruits of their labour to those who most need it.

With a bit of imagination, technologies can be made cheap enough for the poor, but investors are needed, finds Kafil Yamin.

A successful vaccine trial, new drugs, and improved understanding have given new hope to the HIV/AIDS research community.

Uganda's president wants to use new-found oil money to fund science and cut aid. But is he striking out too soon, asks Linda Nordling?

The barriers to mainstream medical approval are great but some traditional treatments are finding new routes to acceptance, finds Yojana Sharma.

With proper supervision, developing countries' students can excel and contribute to science research, as the recent TB genome mapping shows.

The fruits of science and technology in developing countries can be useful to the West, but it does not always recognise them.

What will the Gates Foundation's links to a network of agricultural research centres mean for tackling hunger, asks Yojana Sharma?

The optimism felt by scientists at the fall of apartheid is fading as financial and social realities fail to match up to expectations.

University scientists say they were under-used during the flu crisis because of a poor relationship with government laboratories.

UNESCO has a new science policy division head. Lidia Brito talks to SciDev.Net about her plans.

From Cambodia to Singapore, Shiow Chin Tan finds the situation for scientists varies enormously across South-East Asia.

What do a country's universities need to support a large-scale nuclear industry? One group in South Africa is trying to find out.

Gill Samuels of the Global Forum for Health Research tells SciDev.Net why health innovation must include health systems research.

Developing nations are building their own satellites despite freely available Western data. Do the gains outweigh the costs, asks Tatum Anderson.

Getting the right technology into poor countries is crucial for fighting climate change but how should we go about it? T. V. Padma investigates.

Can Brazil use its booming economy and abundant natural resources to become a life sciences juggernaut, asks Gene Russo.

Money is no object at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology — but will sumptuous surroundings promote research?

Post-apartheid South African science faces many challenges but boosts in science spending mean the country is making strides.

Ambitious reforms aimed at meeting the world's food demands lie ahead for the agency that networks agricultural research in poor regions.