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  • Malaria vaccine: Gates Foundation Helping to Beat Plasmodium Falciparum Killer
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    Malaria Vaccine: Gates Foundation Helping to Beat Plasmodium Falciparum

    Malaria Vaccine: Gates Foundation Helping to Beat Plasmodium Falciparum Killer While other major-league killers such as smallpox and yellow fever have been virtually eliminated, the magic bullet of a really effective vaccine against malaria has, time and again, eluded researchers. But now fresh hope could be at hand. In November 2009, the Path Malaria Vaccine […] More

  • Atacama desert : Chile
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    Atacama Desert In Chile :Protection of the Tamarugal Forest

    Atacama Desert In Chile :Protection of the Tamarugal Forest The endemic tamarugo tree survives in one of the world’s driest deserts, the Atacama Desert in north Chile. The tree is able to “stretch its roots to the genitalia of the earth and ultimately defeats death”, as the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda once expressed […] More