Month: July 2007

U.S.: House Backs Taxpayer-Funded Research Access

From the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (Chemists Without Borders is a member). HOUSE BACKS TAXPAYER-FUNDED RESEARCH ACCESSFinal Appropriations Bill Mandates Free Access to NIH Research Findings Washington, D.C. ­ July 20, 2007 ­ In what advocates hailed as a majoradvance for scientific communication, the U.S. House of Representativesyesterday approved a measure directing the National Institutes …

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Free ASP Shopping Cart :: Comersus

See Free ASP Shopping Cart :: Comersus An interesting chain of links brought me here. From the perspective of generating revenue and of broadening awareness, perhaps there are – or will be – things we sell on our website. T-shirts, books, information – revenues to support the cause. How can we expand on this? Bego

Open source product development, LinkedIn, MindMeister

Perhaps this has been said before, but regarding various projects, I envision broad participation from people all over the world contributing to solving the problem, or adapting to local needs, much as open source software is developed. There are now many networking tools on the web which can help us. I have started to use …

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Chemists Without Borders Conference Call, 6-28-2007

Last week’s conference call was very exciting. Rolande Hodel (www.AIDSfreeAFRICA.org, New York, NY) and Terry Wright (www.Cytoluminator.com, Darwin, Australia) had an extended discussion of their respective projects. Cytoluminator employs photodynamic therapy (PDT), which has been succesfully used to cure various intractable diseases. Terry said that they have been able to kill HIV in models and …

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