Thursday, March 12, 2009

FLYING SYRINGES

The Bill & Melinda Gates charitable foundation has awarded 104 grants, each for $100,000, in a bid to inject entrepreneurial boldness and risk-taking into the often staid world of medical research ....... The winning grants offer a bewildering array of ideas from a bewildering array of researchers. Hiroyuki Matsuoka of Jichi Medical University in Japan wants to turn mosquitoes into flying syringes to deliver vaccines rather than illness.

Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, October 23, 2008; Page A12

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203083.html

The Mosquito Syringe picture is from : http://mark-story.com/portfolio/view/mosquito-syringe

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