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This week's Ghana STEM news, in one thread
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🤖 KNUST students' "Husker AI" wins AI hackathon with a cocoa-waste solution
🦟 Ghana officially declares a yellow fever outbreak in the Upper West Region
🌾 FAO + Ghanaian researchers push AI and science for food security
🦠 KNUST physiologist: Ghanaians have the healthiest gut microbiomes in 5-country study
🎗️ Accra College of Medicine helps find a bladder cancer treatment booster
🧠 Komfo Anokye physician co-builds AI tool to predict dementia risk
#GhanaSTEM #ScienceInGhana #GhanaTech #KNUST
Full round-up: ghscientific.com/ghana-stem-…
This Saturday, we’re turning the nervous system into a playground for 5-15 year olds.
No slides. Just science you can feel.
📅 Saturday 17 October
📍 Gheek Center: Agbogba- Opposite Kess Pharmacy
🕐 10am
Are you ready to meet your nervous system?
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Do you love science but feel like it’s always happening somewhere else, to someone else?
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#STEMGheek #GhanaScience #GHScientific #ScienceForAll
Friday’s Gheeks by the Fireside conversation on inherited breast cancer risks in Ghanaian women was one of the most important conversations we’ve hosted.
A huge thank you to Professor Lily Paemka,
Thank you for bringing your research to a public audience with such clarity and generosity. Whole-exome sequencing. Germline variants. Population-specific risk data. She made all of it accessible
If you missed it, we’ll be sharing the recording soon.
🧬 Breast cancer risk in Ghanaian women is not the same as in European populations. The data is starting to say so. Now we all need to know it.
#GheeksByTheFireside #BreastCancerAwareness #GHScientific #NufuFest
This week's Ghana STEM news, in one thread 🧵👇
🤖 Ghana Robotics Competition is underway at the University of Ghana (Oct 7–9) 🦟 450 suspected yellow fever cases since June, 74 in Upper West Region ♻️ Ghana holds its first-ever Circular Economy Conference
💊 Mahama unveils "H-Enabler" to fast-track African-made medicine 📶 MTN pays $202M for new 5G spectrum 🍷 KNUST tests a light-based scan for wine toxins 🧬 Malaria parasites may be evolving around sickle-cell protection 🥥 Coconut husk waste turned into a germ-fighting material
🏅 #NobelPrize2026 in Chemistry: Henri B. Kagan & Kenso Soai, for discovering how to make molecules "one-handed", key to safer medicines and to how life itself began.
Our explainer 👇
#Chemistry #ScienceInAfrica
🏅 #NobelPrize2026 in Physics: Francis Halzen, for IceCube, a telescope made of a cubic km of Antarctic ice that catches "ghost particles" from deep space.
How it works, in one infographic 👇
#Neutrinos #ScienceInAfrica
🏅 #NobelPrize2026 in Physiology or Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel, for optogenetics.
A light-sensitive protein from pond algae now lets scientists switch brain cells on and off with light. Our explainer 👇
#ScienceInAfrica #Neuroscience
🏆 TOMORROW, NOBEL WEEK BEGINS.
Mon — Medicine 🩺
Tue — Physics ⚛️
Wed — Chemistry 🧪
Thu — Literature 📚
Fri — Peace 🕊️ + Gheeks by the Fireside 🔥
We're reacting to every one.
Which prize do you think matters most for Ghana/Africa?
#GhanaScience #NobelWeek
This week's Ghana STEM news, in one thread 🧵👇
💬 UTAS students launch SafeSiso — an AI WhatsApp chatbot for teen health
🏗️ Ghana's first engineering + agriculture university opens in Bunso
🌾 5 agric colleges get $500K+ in drones, sensors & digital farming kits
🔬 AI-powered microscope nails malaria diagnosis in Ghana & Ethiopia
📋 New review grades Ghana's readiness for the next disease outbreak
❤️ Big evidence check: heart device vs. blood thinners for stroke risk
#GhanaSTEM #ScienceInGhana #GhanaTech #KNUST
Full round-up: [ghscientific.com/ghana-stem-…]
