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HEALTH

The Stanford University School of Medicine has announced a $7m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a new initiative that will create the world's largest public database of the genes involved in latent tuberculosis. One-third of the world's population has latent TB, a form of the disease in which the bacterium lies dormant, often for decades. The new database will be made accessible to scientists around the world via the Web and could become a model for battling other disease-causing organisms. More >>> See Press Release