Porn as education, robots at war, and retired Microsoft boss Bill Gates’ mosquito release were just some of the highlights at the TED conference. more....

This has been one of the most hyperactive days for crazy news. First it was the "Klingon convenience store robberies", then the zombie street signs. Now this...At some kind of pretentious pow-wow called TED, Bill Gates spoke to the audience about the efforts his foundation is undertaking to wipe out...

Biotech, Diagnostics, Diseases Rachel Tompa wrote: Micronics has been around since 1996, so it hardly qualifies as a startup anymore. But the Redmond, WA-based biotech company has been moving in new directions over the last few years, and is now getting ready to bring its first diagnostic tests to t...

January 11, 2009, 8:21 a.m. Tucson Citizen letters@tucsoncitizen.com Treat homosexuality like the disease it is In his book, "My Genes Made Me Do It," psychologist N.E. Whitehead, Ph.D., summarizes his survey ......

Biotech, Global Health, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: The global health bug bit Lisa Cohen in 2001. She was a producer at KING5-TV in Seattle at the time, and along with anchorwoman Jean Enerson, she traveled through Africa for two weeks in a delegation with Patty Stonesifer, who was then runn...

Malaria has been termed “the strongest known force for evolutionary selection in the recent history of the human genome.� That distinction is hard won. The wikipedia entry on the subject claims that Malaria has infected humans for over 50,000 years. According to the US Centre for Disease Control...

Would you give $10 to save a kid from dying? Of course you would! Then you have your chance NOW…. 1. I got an email that instantly got stuck in my brain. An email that clearly disturbed my concentration. That practically screamed to me to write a blog post about it. That email were written by ...

Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of  the United Kingdom, exercises his religious beliefs.  He started a foundation (Tony Blair Faith Foundation) in New York to unite the world's religions and faiths to end extreme poverty.  First, he wants to fight malaria. The foundation "strongly e...

URL: Warming ‘affecting poor children’ Warming ‘affecting poor children’ Diseases such as malaria may spread under climate change, Unicef warns Climate change is already affecting the prospects for children in the world’s poorer countries, according to Unicef. The UN ch...

World Malaria Day is this Friday, April 25th. Malaria is a killer. In Africa, it is the number one killer of children. But it doesn't have to be. Malaria is both a preventable and treatable disease. It can be prevented by giving families and individuals insecticide-treated bed nets to sleep under an...