Asante Thomas Armstrong

Mr Asante Thomas Amstrong is a transformational educationist and advocate for teachers’ welfare and development. The conscientious Board Chairman of GCF is also the Chairman of the Brong Ahafo Regional Chairman of GNAT, the Headmaster of Wamanafo Senior High Technical School (Bono Region).

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Henry Opoku Nyamekye

Henry Opoku Nyamekye

Henry Opoku Nyamekye is the District GNAT Chairman for Wenchi District of the Bono Region of Ghana. He has served in this capacity for seven years now.

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Altering the behavior of living mice by editing genes in the brain

Cancer research

In a paper, “Whole-brain in vivo base editing reverses behavioral changes in Mef2c-mutant mice,” published in Nature Neuroscience, the team details their revolutionary advancement in applied in vivo gene editing with luminous implications for clinical neuroscience. The study focuses on a single-base mutation within the MEF2C gene, a gene associated with ASD in humans. MEF2C is highly expressed in specific […]

Discovery points to new approach to treating liver cancer.

Cancer research

A breakthrough in the understanding of the relationship between a naturally occurring enzyme and the liver cancer drug sorafenib could improve the effectiveness of the drug, which currently prolongs the life of liver cancer patients for only two to three months. A study of the relationship between the enzyme DDX5, liver cancer sorafenib, published in […]

New wearable communication system offers potential to reduce digital health divide

However, wearables currently require significant infrastructure—such as satellites or arrays of antennas that use cell signals—to transmit data, making many of those devices inaccessible to rural and under-resourced communities. A group of University of Arizona researchers has set out to change that with a wearable monitoring device system that can send health data up to […]