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Submission + - Malaria vaccine: via mosquito

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CodeShark

on Thursday July 30, 2009 @01:39PM

CodeShark writes: "The AP is reporting that mosquitoes have been used for the first time to deliver anti-malarial "vaccine" through their bites. According to this article the results were crystal clear: 100% of the vaccinated group acquired immunity, everyone in the non-vaccinated control group did not. Those in the control group and developed malaria when exposed to the parasites later, the vaccinated group did not.

Malaria kills nearly a million people per year, mostly children. Compared to any injection regimen, if this technology comes to fruition, could this be the end to a dreaded killer?"

Submission + - Firefox Beta score 93 on Acid3 test

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CodeShark

on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @09:49AM

CodeShark writes: "Mozilla released their latest Firefox 3.X beta today (3.5b4), and increased their score on the Acid 3 test to 93 [on my XP laptop], with tests 70,71, and tests 75-79 being the final challenges. Curiously though, the current release of the top Acid3 performer — Apple's Safari browser still not only rates higher(I got scores of 99 once and 100 most of the time) but is usually faster by a little (1.1 sec avg. vs. 1.4 over ten runs apiece) but only because the new Firefox beta was all over the map — frequently better by 25% (.85sec) or tanking badly with rendering times in the 2.5 — 3 second range, and both suffer performance hits on one test (#69)

What think ye all? what kind of results are you seeing, especially in other languages and on other platforms?"

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