Using tobacco to fight emphysema is certainly unexpected, especially for the scientists who were working on a way to prevent pandemics when they stumbled on this much more marketable medical breakthrough.READ»
India is rapidly becoming a global supplier of life-saving HIV vaccine. Now it's joining forces with South Africa to research the HIV sub-type most commonly found in their countries. READ»
Did you get a H1N1 flu shot? You can thank unhatched chicken eggs for that. But a new venture dubbed Project GreenVax aims to take animals completely out of the equation by making vaccines with tobacco plants.
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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»