University of the Witwatersrand

...2008. The research was conducted by HIV/Aids and the Media Project and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA). The findings were presented at Wits University in Johannesburg in late October, in a discussion forum attended by academics, health...

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...during a webcast from today's scientific meeting. Raal is the director of the Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. So what was in the data that made Isis investors, at...

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...call for heart disease patients to reduce LDL to about 70, said Raal, director of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism research at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. There is also a Phase III study of the drug in heterozygous...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies has awarded a R9-million ($1-million) grant to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) for the establishment of a rural-based education campus in the North West province. The grant awarded on 4 November will...

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...the publication of the scientists' findings in the Proceedings of The Royal Society B. SOUNDBITE: (English), Adam Yates, Paleontologist, University of the Witswatersrand: "The first day of digging we started exposing large bone, after large...

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...a sauropod involved," said Adam Yates, the primary investigator from the Bernard Price Institute for Paleontological Research at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. "We did not expect to find anything of this magnitude"...

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...evolution of the largest creatures ever to walk the earth, a scientist said Wednesday. Adam Yates, a paleontologist at Johannesburg's Wits University, said the seven-meter-long Aardonyx Celestae occupied a "very significant position in the...

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...Aardonyx Celestae, from the early Jurassic period (about 200 million years old) during an announcement of the discovery at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. The fossils, displayed on the...

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Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica AP - Graphic released by Australian paleontologist Adam Yates, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, … By CELEAN JACOBSON, Associated Press Writer Celean Jacobson, Associated...

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...we have is a big, short-footed, barrel-chested, long-necked, small-headed dinosaur," explained Adam Yates, the scientist from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg who led the research. "The earliest ancestral dinosaur - the...

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