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Malaria Fight: Gates Foundation funds development of malaria drug artemisinin
(One World Health)
The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $42.6 million to the
Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company, to
fund malaria drug research. The institute's goal is to develop a
microbially derived version of the drug artemisinin in five years. "It
is a relay race right now," says Katherine Woo, director of scientific
affairs at OneWorld Health. read more
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Carbohydrate Vaccines
Vaccines--agents
that stimulate antibodies or immune cells to fight disease--have
generally been made from weakened or killed pathogens or from
immunogenic proteins, glycoproteins, or polysaccharides obtained from
microorganisms. The carbohydrate-based agents--glycoproteins and
polysaccharides--can be difficult to isolate from their natural
sources, though, and the natural isolates can have heterogeneity and
contamination problems. read more
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Gene-tweaked spuds may fight hepatitis
(Vaccine grown in potatoes could protect poor countries)
A
hepatitis vaccine grown in genetically engineered potatoes seemed to
protect most people who ate them, researchers reported on Monday. About
60 percent of the volunteers who ate the biggest dose of potatoes
showed an immune response that should protect against infection with
the hepatitis B virus, Charles Arntzen of Arizona State University and
colleagues reported. read more
- Arsenic Rooted From Water
(Powdered water hyacinth roots rapidly remove arsenic from water)
One of the most problematic weeds in the world could prove useful for cleaning up water supplies contaminated with arsenic. read more
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Current News
- On Wednesday March 15th 2011, Chemists Without Borders Chapter at Thompson Rivers University held a fundraising event.
read more
- On Saturday March 12th 2011, Chemists Without Borders hosted an arsenic analytical methods validation workshop in Boron, CA.
The arsenic filter prototype and portable analytical methods for aqueous arsenic concentrations were discussed and available for inspection.
read more
- Chemists Without Borders is delighted to announce a new partnership
with Bangladesh University and Beyond Benign as Bangladesh University inaugurates the Centre for Environmental Research along with
a new major in Environmental Science. Bangladesh University has also offered itself as a platform for Chemists Without Borders’ operations in the region.
- Chemists Without Borders is working with the inventors
of the SONO Filter Dr. Abul Hussam, Associate Professor of Chemistry at George Mason University and Dr. A.K.M. Munir, General Secretary of
Manob Sakti Unnayan Kendro in Bangladesh, to help ensure that many in Bangladesh who might not otherwise have access to arsenic free water can use
the SONO filter to improve their living conditions.
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