There are strange infections – and even stranger ones because we never thought they were virally transmitted and coming from bacteria, instead of just resulting from unhealthy lifestyle, genetics, or ageing. ‘A growing number of diseases that were thought to be down to genetics or lifestyle turn out to have an infectious origin.’ For starters, [...]

Ubiquitous in the African landscape, sorghum is a grass that is native to Africa and feeds millions of people in the continent. Recently, scientists from Rutgers University have described the genome of the ‘ Sorghum bicolor,’ and say that they have opened up new possibilities by which to exploit the potential of the plant as [...]