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Sampling downriver from a Waste Water Treatment Plant in a large South African city.

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Wastewater harbours high-risk antimicrobial resistance genes

In South Africa, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and connected river systems could serve as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance, raising fresh concerns...

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New species of magic mushroom is indigenous to Southern Africa

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New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms

A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled by...

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