Gates donates: maleria research
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p2pnet.net OT News:- The OneWorld Health drug company is now $42.6 better off, thanks to a grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.
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There's no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as the end of the first Microsoft era.  This year, Bill Gates will finally hang up his Microsoft mouse and leave the company he cofounded over 30 years ago.  Most people know that he's going off to spend the very large sums of money he has acquired from those Microsoft years, most of which has been used to set up the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation with $37.6 billion in assets.  But what will that really mean for free software? read more
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and  the Rockefeller Foundation unveiled on Tuesday a joint $150  million pledge to fight hunger and poverty in Africa by helping  small farmers become more productive.
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Computer users are being asked to donate their unused processor power to help solve social and environmental research problems. The IBM-backed project, called World Community Grid, aims to put the untapped
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Although Bill Gates&#039; massive philanthropic foundation tends to get the most attention for its efforts to transform education, the company he co-founded also is paying close attention to the world of academia.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has given a $43 million dollars grant to aid in the development of a genetically engineered form of a Chinese herbal drug that is thought to be effective in curing malaria.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has signed an agreement with a Spanish association to develop better software for the blind.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates signed an agreement Friday with a Spanish association for the blind to develop better software for people with visual impairments.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and   the Rockefeller Foundation unveiled on Tuesday a joint $150   million pledge to fight hunger and poverty in Africa by helping   small farmers become more productive.
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Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation has contributed nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, said Sunday that the search for HIV prevention drugs could be the "next big breakthrough" in combating the disease.
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Bill Gates, whose philanthropic foundation has donated nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, on Sunday called for countries to "dig deep" to halt the deadly virus that causes the disease.
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A 3D map tracking genes at work in the mouse brain has been completed and posted online, a boon for researchers studying neurological disorders, the institute founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced.
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InfoWorld - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --&#160; Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance here Friday at the Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry.
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A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former company executive Charles Simonyi.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation took its support of AIDS-related research and care to a new level Wednesday, announcing a $500 million grant to an international fund that provides AIDS assistance in poor countries.
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(12/13/04)âA $42.6 million grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to the Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the United States, will create a powerful new approach to developing a more affordable
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Research to fight the global tuberculosis epidemic got a shot in the arm on Tuesday with $280 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for work to develop more effective vaccines, diagnostic tests and drugs.