NeoAMS, a programme targeting inappropriate use of antibiotics among hospitalised newborns, was awarded the 2023 Stewardship Prize by the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Industry Alliance. NeoAMS is spearheaded by Stellenbosch University...

​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...

​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...

A study about disinfectant, soap and probiotic cleaning extended probiotic cleaning research to a built environment. Through an eight-month cleaning trial researchers compared the effect of three cleaning products (disinfectant, plain soap...

How respiratory structures vary with, or are constrained by, an animal's environment is of great importance to see the differences in evolutionary development and for comparative physiology hypotheses. It is challenging to investigate the...

The first study using confocal micrographs on the quantitative analysis of vetkoek or magwinya crumb and crust properties was done by scientists from the University of Venda at the CAF Fluorescence Microscopy facility. The confocal laser...

For Dr Martin Venter, one of the recipients of Stellenbosch University (SU) Teaching Excellence Awards 2020–2021, teaching is a tough but rewarding profession. This senior lecturer at the department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering...