Future Production: Manufacturing

A CSIR-developed tool to solve problems related to fluid-structure-interactions

With more computational resources at the disposal of researchers, multi-physics simulations are becoming a reality. Fluid-structure interactions (FSI), a subclass of multi-physics problems is gaining in popularity. FSI can broadly be defined as the multi-field simulation or modelling of the inter...

Minister Naledi Pandor launches the Biomanufacturing Industry Development Centre at the CSIR

The Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor opened a bio-manufacturing centre in Pretoria at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) today. The Bio-Manufacturing Industry Development Centre (BIDC) is a first of its kind in South Africa and it aims to support small, medi...

mLab and the CSIR partner to unlock the local mHealth & Wellness open innovation economy

mLab Southern Africa and the CSIR announce a new partnership to stimulate more innovation in the Mobile Health & Wellness sector. Tshwane, South Africa, May 27, 2016 - mLab Southern Africa today announced a new partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) aimed at st...

Finding NEMO: first visual evidence of higher-order immune response structures results from collaborative research

Scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the University of Cape Town (UCT), in collaboration with colleagues at the Institut Pasteur and University College London (UCL) have for the first time visualised a key regulatory protein in cells. This landmark finding a...

Encapsulation technology for probiotics and other sensitive actives

The CSIR has developed a novel, supercritical fluid-based encapsulation technology for encapsulation of sensitive actives such as probiotics . Technology Field: Encapsulation technology Technology Description: The technology provides a method for encapsulating, and thereby protecting, an active s...

Umbiflow low-cost Doppler ultrasound device for better primary health care services for pregnant women

CSIR researchers, together with their counterparts at the Medical Research Council, have developed a low-cost Doppler ultrasound device that aims to place Doppler technology at the primary health care level. The technology can potentially reduce referrals for “small for gestational age” foetuses ...

The CSIR and Afriplex - partners in bringing health solutions

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed an agreement with Afriplex - a well-known South African manufacturer of nutraceutical and healthcare products - to carry out biological evaluation studies on the herbal extracts that may be beneficial in the management of colds ...

Poverty-related diseases to be the focus of high-level nanomedicine workshop

It is estimated that poverty-related diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), chagas disease, HIV/Aids and others kill approximately 14 million people annually. While these diseases reflect a dynamic relationship between poverty, morbidity and mortality, they f...

CSIR takes the fight against Aids and TB to another level

The South African government commitment to fight against the scourge of AIDS and TB received a massive unprecedented boost with the unveiling of state-of- the- art HIV and TB laboratory facility in Pretoria today. HIV and TB are national health priorities and in its quest to find the cure for the...