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The foundation sees its role as filling the breach where the private sector is not addressing a crisis. The industrialized world's ailments, from indigestion to breast cancer, are already the focus of drug-company research. Cure a First World disease, and reap millions in profits. But cure a Third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Billions Isn't Easy: Bill and Melinda Gates | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Bill Gates scrutinizes each project and often asks very specific questions. In one series of internal e-mail messages provided to TIME, Gates asked who would own the intellectual property arising from a particular vaccine program. Another exchange had him doubting that the per-dollar impact of a given program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Billions Isn't Easy: Bill and Melinda Gates | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Then, last year, the Amyloid People staged a surprise attack. First, researchers at Elan Pharmaceuticals of South San Francisco stunned their colleagues by reporting that they had taken mice genetically engineered to develop plaques and vaccinated them with a fragment of beta amyloid. Twelve months later, seven out of nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Alzheimer's | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

The most straightforward approach to fighting Alzheimer's plaques is to target their main ingredient, a protein called beta amyloid. Last summer scientists from Elan Pharmaceuticals, a biotech firm located in Ireland, reported that they had developed a vaccine that could shrink the plaques--at least in mice. Here the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unraveling Alzheimer's | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Jun. 12, 2000 | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

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