​A new national facility for water and soil analysis is currently being set up at Stellenbosch University. The new facility will form one of the nodes of BIOGRIP, a national research infrastructure platform hosted by UCT and with nodes at...

One of the main reasons for the strict lockdown regulations in South Africa during COVID-19, was to prevent overcrowding of hospitals and provide them with precious time to prepare for the expected influx of patients as transmissions peaked...

A new addition to the Fluorescence Microscopy Unit’s array of equipment at the Stellenbosch University’s Tygerberg Campus.​ Imagine having access to an instrument capable of taking single cell analysis by flow cytometry to the next level...

​In October 2020, leading industry publication The Analytical Scientist announced the release of its annual Power List. The Power List celebrates the tremendous range of talent, ingenuity and leadership present across all corners of...

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​LC-MS is an important tool in metabolomics studies. An example of such work at the LCMS laboratory is the recently published papers by our PhD student, Keabetswe Masike who used it to study leaf blackening in Proteas. She further optimized...

X-ray tomography of apples - how does browning disorder affect pore spaces? This work provides a novel and in-depth insight into the effects of short-term high CO 2/low O 2 stress conditions on the microstructural properties of South...

​The herbicide, Roundup, has been used over the past 45 years in the Western Cape. As a result of this constant, high selection pressure, resistance to Roundup (Glyphosate) has developed in a range of weeds. Sparse genome data for these low...

The CAF Mass Spectrometry (MS) unit was awarded as CAF Unit of the Year by Prof Gary Stevens, CAF director. The MS unit managed to function cost-effectively and produced a profit during 2020 despite the difficult circumstances with the...

Dr Kate Sendin (Department Food Science) used the VNIR and SWIR hyperspectral cameras at the Vibrational Spectroscopy unit for her PhD project to develop methods, which can be used to evaluate the quality of maize. Maize kernels are graded...