Word: sprayings
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...financial spark for Edwards’ vaccine spray comes from a $7.6 million grant from a charity whose endowment tops even Harvard’s—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation, through its contributions to professors like Edwards, is shaking up a quarter-century-old practice that has placed research universities between titans of government and industry...
Edwards, the McKay professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, has developed an innovative technique for vaccinating patients against TB. His approach administers the vaccine through an inhaled spray, rather than the typical needle...
Typically, Harvard licenses its faculty’s cutting-edge discoveries to for-profit companies, earning royalties in return. But this time, Harvard is taking the unusual step of forgoing much of its royalties on Edwards’ TB vaccine spray both in the U.S. and abroad...
Edwards’ spray solves many of the problems with the current BCG method. It doesn’t require needles—thus eliminating the HIV risk—and may also prove more effective than injecting needles under the skin. The spray immunizes directly through the lungs, which is the route of infection for TB. The new method may also depend less on refrigeration...
...this sense he was as close in spirit to Keith Haring as he was to Klee, and if the book has a fault, it's that it stints on his formative punk years in the '70s and '80s, assuming everyone has read Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar's Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley (1997). As they documented, it was his 1981 mural Primitive, named after a song by The Cramps, that saw Arkley paint his way from an abstract to a figurative style. Perhaps it was his life-long love of doodling that drew him to the airbrush...