Yemaachi Biotech is preparing to expand a whole-exome sequencing pilot study, while pushing forward several other pan-African cancer...
Radiologic patterns of distant organ metastasis in advanced breast cancer patients
Breast cancer (BC) metastases to the abdomen and pelvis affect the liver, mesentery, retroperitoneum, peritoneum, bladder, kidney, ovary,...
Yemaachi Presents Findings on Mutation Profiles of Ghanaian Women with
Results presented in collaboration with Paemka Research Group at the University of Ghana represent largest sequencing study of...
African scientists call for research equity as a cancer crisis
At Yemaachi, Bediako is developing cancer diagnostics and treatments tailored to Africans, and he describes the limited official...
Assessing the utility of liquid biopsy for detecting actionable genetic
Liquid biopsy detected multiple actionable variants in Ghanaian women with breast cancer that a tissue-only workflow missed. cfDNA...
Liquid Biopsy – The necessary first step towards democratising precision
While IHC and imaging are useful for diagnosing and staging cancers, they are limited in their ability to...
Global team to study international differences in COVID-19 immunity
Supported by £3.1 million from the Wellcome Trust, the newly-created WWW Consortium links three leading studies in West...
African biotech holds the key to transforming not just the
Why has over a decade of political rhetoric and unprecedented donor support for scientific capacity building not translated...
Probing SARS-CoV-2-positive plasma to identify potential factors correlating with mild
West Africa has recorded a relatively higher proportion of asymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases than the rest...
Ghana startup strives for greater African representation in cancer research
As one of Ghana's only labs equipped for molecular analysis, Bediako's team have tasked themselves with collecting data...
Yemaachi, Africa’s Cancer Research Company, Raises Seed Round To Diversify
Yemaachi Biotech announced today the close of a $3 million seed round to advance its mission of diversifying...
Yemaachi Launches HPV Molecular Test in Ghana for At-Home Cervical
GenomeWeb covers Yemaachi's launch of its Sheba HPV Test, a convenient discreet way for women to screen themselves...