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CORRECTION (posted Nov. 15, 2007): An earlier version of this story suggested that Amyris's work on anti-malarial drugs was funded directly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates grant actually went to the Institute for OneWorld Health, which worked with Amyris and U.C. Berkeley on the project.

With Roxana Popescu in Boston and Constance Loizos in Silicon Valley

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    Where is Newsweek's report on Mayor Bloomberg's speech at Georgetown Conference this week?

  • Posted By: leura2stay @ 12/05/2007 7:33:00 AM

    Your details regarding the origin of this technology in Australia are not completely accurate. It was jointly developed from the early 1990???s by both Mills and Morrison. Mills developed the optical design of the concentrator while Morrison developed the thermal design of the absorber and system operation.

  • Posted By: leura2stay @ 12/05/2007 7:29:58 AM

    Your details regarding the origin of this technology in Australia are not entirely accurate. It was jointly developed from the early 1990???s by both Mills and Morrison. Mills developed the optical design of the concentrator while Morrison developed the thermal design of the absorber and system operation.

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