Visualizing the world getting better, thanks to data master Hans Rosling of Gapminder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
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Anti-HIV drug TruvadaNIH Medical researchers have shown that taking a common anti-AIDS drug can be used to prevent HIV infection…
The Gates Foundation today announced it had awarded $6.5 million in a new round of funding to 65 scientific teams…
A new drug, derived from Chinese wormwood, is being hailed as more effective than quinine for treating children with life-threatening…
Okay, that’s not my real question. I think I know why people pick on Jeff Sachs. Jeff SachsEarth Institute Sachs,…
Why does the Gates Foundation keep funding all those wacky ideas like trying to use infrared light to confuse mosquitoes…
Out of some 18,000 applications made by scientists to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Exploration program, nine…
Sandi Doughton of the Seattle Times reports today on a finding by local researchers that could, if proven out in…
Seattle is home to the world’s largest network of AIDS vaccine researchers, the HIV Trials Network, and home to one…
HIV, the virusLos Alamos National Laboratory I’m in Atlanta this week for a meeting, starting today, aimed at ridding the…