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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