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Health, Science & Environment

Wash U Researchers Awarded $24 Million In Effort To Eradicate Tropical Diseases

Shahla Farzan

Elephantiasis and river blindness are parasitic diseases straight out of a horror movie.In both cases, insects bite humans and transmit tiny parasitic…
Government, Politics & Issues

Gates Foundation boosts efforts here to provide life-saving crops for Africa

David Baugher

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 15, 2011 - When Martin Fregene talks to farmers in his native Nigeria, he always tells them…
Health, Science & Environment

Danforth Center gets grant for African nutrition

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Creve Coeur $8.3 million to increase the nutritional value of…