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V____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 19 May 2010 11:34 : \____
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/backyard-star-wars
>
> The idea of building a high-tech defense against disease-carrying pests
> had come up in discussions that Myhrvold and Wood had been having with
> Bill Gates, who was MyhrvoldÂs boss when he was chief technology
> officer at Microsoft in the 1990s. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates
> Foundation, Gates has been trying to improve living conditions in some of
> the worldÂs poorest countries and in particular to come up with ways
> to eradicate malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that sickens about a
> quarter billion people a year and kills nearly a million annually,
> including roughly 2000 children a day (see Web-only sidebar, "New
> Techniques Against a Tenacious Disease").
>
> No doubt already patented!
Check out Myhrvold's vaccine patents that BillG is promoting.
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