Kenya Science & Technology News

Researchers reported promising results for what may become the world's first vaccine to prevent malaria, a killer of 1 million people each year. In early tests, the experimental vaccine was more than 50 percent effective in preventing the deadly disease...

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to push its mass adoption towards eliminating the biting food crisis. In Kenya, screening for drought tolerance wheat varieties in the country’s hot and barren dry lands of Njoro, long considered unfit for agriculture, at...

Making mashed potatoes that are creamy and healthier is easier than you think. It's all a matter of using the right potatoes and being careful about what you mash into them...Servings: 6 2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut...

OF THE Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) to regulate TV content is what worries the media. For the first time, the Government is about to obtain the legal muscle to play Big Brother in deciding what may be aired, when,...

Recent developments in the search for a malaria vaccine are heartwarming, with the world for the first time entertaining a genuine hope that finally, a working drug is possible. Research done in Kenya and elsewhere has shown that one of...

Spurred on by reports of a significant increase in HIV infections among married couples, health officials want to involve women in the drive to have more Kenyan men undergo circumcision. Speaking at the launch of the voluntary male circumcision programme...

This means that for a negative man who is circumcised engaging in risky sex contacts, there is a smaller but still significant risk to contract the virus. There have also been reports from other researches that circumcised males have an...