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Five Creative Ways to Improve Health Care in the Developing World

BY Ariel SchwartzWed Oct 21, 2009 at 1:48 PM

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced that it has bestowed 76 grants of $100,000 each to scientists who have come up with unconventional ways to destroy infectious diseases in the developing world. Below are ...READ»

Cellscope Diagnoses Diseases from Your Cell Phone

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The CellScope Disease-Diagnosing Microscope Gets a Color Upgrade

BY Ariel SchwartzWed Jul 22, 2009 at 5:12 PM

A few months ago, we took a look at the CellScope, a tool that turns camera-enabled cell phones and netbooks into handheld microscopes that can diagnose diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. When we originally reported the story, ...READ»

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Gates Foundation Grants $100K Apiece To 81 Wild Ideas

BY Cliff KuangTue May 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»

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GlaxoSmithKline Fights Malaria in Africa with Satellites

BY Chris DannenMon Mar 23, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Malaria kills one million people a year, most of them children in Africa's so-called Malaria Belt (the sub-Saharan region). In partnership with the Gates Foundation, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing an ambitious ...READ»

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Pew Pew! Gates-Funded Weapon of Mosquito Destruction Combats Malaria

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Mar 16, 2009 at 1:03 PM

It seemed inevitable that Bill Gates would one day build a killer laser. But who would have guessed that it would be for killing mosquitoes? The Weapon of Mosquito Destruction (WMD), developed by astrophysicists and former ...READ»

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Bill Gates Sends Mosquitoes Into Crowd

BY Chris DannenThu Feb 5, 2009 at 3:39 PM

Whether or not you think Bill Gates is a sadist probably has a lot to do with whether or not you're a Vista user, but we can all agree that freeing a swarm of mosquitoes into an auditorium is downright cruel. Yet that's just what ...READ»

CELLPHONE MICROSCOPE | 3 comments

Cellphone Mod Adds HIV Detection Function

BY Kit EatonMon Dec 22, 2008 at 5:51 AM

Multifunction cellphones get a whole new twist with this modification by UCLA scientists: A microscope add-on that can detect HIV. Dr. Aydogan Ozcan's Lensfree Ultrawide Cell-monitoring Array system simply bolts onto the camera sensor ...READ»