By Robert Fortner, special to Humanosphere For this year’s World Malaria Day, April 25, the big news is mostly bad…
Vaccines are widely, legitimately, hailed as one of medicine’s most powerful weapons in the fight against infectious disease. Millions of lives are saved, deaths prevented, every year using this simple tool that can cost as little as a handful of pennies. So it’s unfortunate we know so little about how vaccines actually work
Kristof is, for many, the voice of the humanitarian movement. Not surprisingly, he gave a rousing, moving talk Thursday evening for the Seattle Biomed crowd in which he emphasized the stunning progress that has been made in global health over the past few decades. He also spoke on the danger posed for sustaining this success story due to public apathy and the mistaken sense that the fight against poverty is too overwhelming, a ‘hopeless’ task.
Flickr, Aya Rosen It’s World Malaria Day. There’s been great progress against malaria over the past decade but most experts…
The Washington Global Health Alliance and the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development has published a new report describing…
That’s the abbreviated story of Ken Stuart, founder of Seattle Biomed. To look at the new building that today houses…
Flickr, ghinson Scientists in Seattle hope to pioneer a more “rational” approach to vaccine development, exploiting powerful computers to better…
Students from Whitman Middle School on Thursday learned a bit more about malaria research by perfecting a very specialized, if…
Luke Timmerman of Xconomy reports today that Seattle Biomed, a global leader in malaria research thanks to funding from the…
Alan Aderem, an internationally recognized immunologist who helped gene-sequencing pioneer Leroy Hood launch a “systems biology” firm in Seattle 15…