Biotech and Malaria

Buried in the New York Times most undesirable local, lower left column, tiny headline, was a piece that undoubtedly was overlooked. I am guessing that it was designated to run in that dire position under a column that betrayed the text precisely because the subject, plant biotechnology happens not to be most popular in publications of this sort. Now if you lived in Addis Abba, or Nairobi most likely this would be the lead story. And quite a story it is. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have generously donated 42.6 million dollars to the Institute of One World Health to support the dynamic work of Dr. Jay Keasling who is currently in the process of taking bio engineered sweet wormwood plants and developing them into an affordable Malaria Drug. Despite biotechnologies' many naysayers, technology visionaries like Bill Gates are convicted and convinced that plant biotechnology will be paramount in reducing the over 300 million cases of Malaria diagnosed each year that desperately ravage third world countries. I'm Susan Allen and this is Food Forethought.