Africa: Continent Warms Up to Biotechnology
Business Daily [Nairobi] via AllAfrica - 14 November 2007
NAIROBI, KENYA: Much of the debate about biotechnology in Africa assumes that African countries are only being asked to accept products developed elsewhere. To the contrary, Freedom to Innovate: Biotechnology in Africa’s Development shows that extensive biotechnology research is under way in Africa. An activity that has Africa-wide implications is the search for natural products, often used in traditional medicines, but which could have potential uses in modern pharmaceutical research. A good example is that of NICOSAN, a herbal medicine commonly used in Africa. Read the article…
