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...monitor their response to the infection. So far, researchers at QUT have pinpointed several proteins that could be used in a chlamydia vaccine. Timms hopes to begin testing the vaccine on koalas this month. According to Timms, over half of Australia’s koalas are infected with chlamydia. Guinea pig trials, with actual guinea pigs, will hopefully follow in 2008. “The idea is to be able to model the immune system and then test some vaccines that the Australians have underway to see if they can actually protect in other models,” Starnbach says...
...What's next for you? -Randall Ford, Houston We're completing our eradication of guinea worm - we've reduced that horrible disease from 3.5 million cases to 8,000 cases so far this year - and are looking at additional diseases to undertake. In the meantime, we continue to help with elections in troubled countries...
...What's next for you? -Randall Ford, Houston We're completing our eradication of guinea worm - we've reduced that horrible disease from 3.5 million cases to 8,000 cases so far this year - and are looking at additional diseases to undertake. In the meantime, we continue to help with elections in troubled countries...
...business in Africa? To be a pharmaceutical giant on the continent is to be accused of discriminating against the poor, either by pricing medicine beyond their reach or by ignoring diseases that are endemic in poverty-stricken areas. It is also to invite suspicion of using Africans as guinea pigs in unsafe drug trials - such allegations have led to ongoing lawsuits seeking more than $9 billion against Pfizer in Nigeria. (Pfizer says the allegations "are simply untrue" and is fighting the charges against a trial it calls "responsible and ethical.") And on a continent where 2.1 million people...
...book, I decided to make myself a guinea pig and put gray hair vs. brown hair to the acid test on Match.com. I assumed that if I accurately reported my age and posted first a photo of myself with gray hair and then, three months later, the same image with brown hair, that the photo with brown hair would be deemed more attractive by more of the Match.com...