After challenging students to use technology to solve problems, the software giant is now giving cash and help to four winners to help take their ideas--from hands-free computing to mobile malaria diagnosis--to market.READ»
By offering up their drugs for free to developing countries, drug companies hope to make inroads into new markets, and prevent a few diseases along the way.READ»
Malaria drugs are expensive, and the disease is becoming resistant. But nothing can resist microwaves. A new advance might simply explode the parasite inside people's bodies with a low dose of focused rays.READ»
In Thienaba, Senegal, David Arquette discovers that preventing malaria doesn't always require high-tech solutions. One father is stopping the disease with just nets and persistence.READ»
By giving male mosquitoes a case of intense infertility (and counting on the females to not notice anything, um, missing from the experience), scientists hope they can prevent a second generation of bugs from spreading malaria.READ»
A new program from HP is equipping African health workers with cell phones so that information about outbreaks can be collected and analyzed as fast as possible.READ»
In perhaps the weirdest malaria-related development yet, scientists announced this week that they're close to being able to produce genetically modified, malaria-fighting mosquitoes. READ»
SeeYourImpact.org rewards acts of micro-charity with photographs and stories of the impact donors make. Here's how the non-profit took the simple idea of storytelling to improve operations--and stand out in the crowd. READ»
Yesterday was all about Apple, as the Cupertino launched hardware and software to an adoring world. And you all know what comes next: the unboxing and the hands-on. Here's Engadget's Josh Topolsky on the 13-inch MacBook Air. Does it ...READ»
Half of the people on Earth today are at risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease malaria. And close to one million people, mainly children in Africa, die of the disease each year, according to the World Health ...READ»
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is known for funding innovative projects. The latest round of 78 grants doesn't disappoint, with recipients across 18 countries and six continents receiving $100,000 apiece for inventions that ...READ»
Oh, not that Buzz. This Gates WMD (weapon of mosquito destruction) obliterates mosquitoes--one by one--and the Malaria they spread in developing nations.READ»
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»
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»
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»
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»
