Our Living Community - 24 December 2025

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Innovation often develops out of new technologies becoming more accessible and affordable. But it takes some clever minds to bring together all the right bits of new technology to bring about innovation that can potentially save lives. In the episode of Wednesday 24 December, Andrew Ingram from the NSRI tells Otto van der Walt about how improvements in technology and new developments have helped the NSRI innovate in order to save more lives.
24 Dec 2025 English South Africa Science · Nature

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