by Dave Mihalovic
December 7, 2012
from PreventDisease Website
Dave Mihalovic is a Naturopathic Doctor who specializes in vaccine research, cancer prevention and a natural approach to treatment. |
by Dave Mihalovic December 7, 2012 from PreventDisease Website
Bill Gates is at it again, throwing money at any researcher with a claim to fame and everything to gain by using scientific advances to prevent as many babies as possible from being born. Soft kill drugs in the pretext of protection is the common theme for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Cheap, effective contraceptive and HIV
pharmaceuticals are now the objectives soon to target the third world.
Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers can dissolve to release drugs, providing a platform for cheap medical use. The research was published this week in the Public Library of Science’s open-access journal PLoS One.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last month awarded the UW researchers almost $1 million to pursue the technology.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed 10 billion dollars over the next ten years to make it the most aggressive decade ever to roll out new vaccines to poor nations around the world.
The commitment
will also effectively create widespread fertility
problems across vaccinated populations.
Electrospinning uses an electric field to catapult a charged fluid jet through air to create very fine, nanometer-scale fibers.
The fibers can be manipulated to control the
material’s solubility, strength and even geometry. Fibers may be even better
at delivering medicine than existing technologies such as gels, tablets or
pills.
One of the fabrics they made dissolves within minutes, potentially offering users immediate, discrete protection against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Another dissolves gradually over a few days, providing an option for sustained delivery, more like the birth-control pill, to provide contraception and guard against HIV.
The fabric could incorporate many fibers to
include more than one anti-HIV drug. Mixed fibers could be designed to
release drugs at different times to increase their potency, like the
prime-boost method used in vaccines.
The electrospun cloth could be inserted directly
in the body or be used as a coating on vaginal rings or other products.
The team is focusing on places like Africa, but the technology could be used in the U.S. or other countries to offer birth control.
The team will use the new Gates Foundation grant to evaluate the versatility and feasibility of their system. The group will hire more research staff and buy an electrospinning machine to make butcher-paper sized sheets.
The expanded team will then spend a year testing
combinations that deliver two antiretroviral drugs and a hormonal
contraceptive, and then six months scaling up production of the most
promising materials.
The public will be the long-term study...
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