Over the past years, bodybuilding has become an important part of the physical development process especially among university students in Ghana.
Nutritional and dietary supplements: are university students risking their health?
Featured Research: Immune checkpoint inhibitors for non-small cell lung cancer – review
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common lung cancer (85% of all lung cancers) and has a poor overall survival. Though chemotherapy is an effective treatment option, factors such as […]
Is DNA effective in solving crime?
Thanks to television detectives, the power of forensic DNA evidence is well known. Viewers are familiar with criminals leaving their DNA at the scene of a crime – allowing police to identify […]
Mental health in Ghana: now and beyond
Authors: Appiah Poku Yankyera (MSc. Health Psychology)1, Rita Adu-Boahene (BSN)2 and Baffour Boaten Boahen-Boaten (MSc. Global Mental Health)3 1Founder, Life Developers Movement, Ghana (✉ yankyera23@gmail.com); 2 Research Nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville-TN, USA; 3Lecturer, […]
A country that ignores science – Regina Kwarteng
As urban folks will put it, a career in pure science has been rendered the status of a “side chick”. On the contrary, it should be “bae” goals, a priority.
The one-district one-factory policy: the role of tertiary institutions
The current New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has promised to implement an industrialisation programme dubbed ‘one-district one-factory’ (ODOF), which will facilitate the economic growth of Ghana and help achieve the status of […]
Call for papers: Scientect launches Journal of Life Sciences
The Scientect Journal of Life Sciences (SJLS) is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes literature in all disciplines of the life sciences including biology, medicine, biochemistry and biotechnology, forensic science, food science and […]
International Women’s Day: advice and inspiration for Ghanaian women in science
Today marks the International Women’s Day (IWD). We were privileged to interview two young Ghanaian women working in science to share briefly their experience and offer some advice and inspiration to young […]
Effective measures to reduce overcrowding in Ghanaian prisons
In simple terms, a prison is a place of confinement for people who commit a crime. It serves as a place of punishment for crime perpetrators. Against this backdrop, some argue that […]
FSN Seminar Series: session on forensic evidence packaging and labeling, and presentation of evidence in court organized at KNUST
The admissibility of forensic evidence depends on several legal requirements including the maintenance of the chain of custody or continuity of the evidence and the integrity of the evidence in the state as […]
