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In 2011, A PhD student studying<br />

microbiology in Nigeria, Emmanuel<br />

Nnaemeka Nnadi, needed help to correctly<br />

sequence some drug-resistant fungal<br />

pathogens as he didn’t have the expertise or<br />

equipment he needed. So he turned to social<br />

media and found ResearchGate, a free<br />

social-networking site for academics. He<br />

posted his questions and got a reply from an<br />

Italian geneticist named Orazio Romeo. For<br />

the past three years, the two scientists have<br />

worked together on fungal infections in<br />

Africa. Nnadi is now studying at Plateau<br />

State University in Bokkos and still ships his<br />

samples to Romeo at the University of<br />

Messina for analysis. Nnadi claims it has<br />

been a fruitful relationship and they have<br />

never even met. Social media can perform<br />

wonders even for science!<br />

Scientific

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