Here’s a short update on the arsenic problem in Bangladesh, and how the SONO filter alleviates the problem (click the title above to view the 2:51 minute video). With over 300,000 SONO filters already in place, that leaves some 75 million people in Bangladesh still in need of its benefits. Of course, there are many …
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 …
Chemists Without Borders Conference Call, 6-28-2007 Read More »
I would like to thank Steve for inviting me to Chemists Without Borders. It is wonderful to see these bottom-up efforts towards open science come together and I see a nice opportunity for a synergy with the UsefulChem project. Our efforts are geared towards chemical solutions to current important problems. Thanks to help from Find-A-Drug, …