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On the question of health care, for example, Obama was effective at defusing McCain's cheap anti-government rhetoric with tangible evidence at every step of the way. He explained why healthcare should be a right by describing his mother's fight with insurers during the final months of her life. He explained that the reason he mandates coverage for children is that they're 'relatively cheap to insure and we don't want them going to the emergency room for treatable illnesses like asthma.' And he exposed the shallowness of arguments about government intrusion by pointing out that, without regulators, insurers don't always deliver on what you pay them for. There wasn't an abstraction in the answer. Which is to say, it was professorial in the best sense (a teacher), not in the sense (highbrow and windy) that's often been applied to Obama

AXTER SMITH 08.OCT.08
Drawing upon the occasion of visiting world leaders for the United Nations General Assembly opening, a collection of philanthropists, global health experts and financiers met in New York City last week to lay fresh plans to fight one of the worlds most deadly diseases.
The Roll Back Malaria Partnership unveiled its Global Malaria Action Plan, an ambitious effort to raise $6.2 billion to fight a disease that infects 500 million people globally and claims the lives of 1 million people a year.
Besides raising money for treatment, a key focus of the effort is developing new ways to prevent the disease.
And it is along those lines, far from the cameras shadowing Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, U2s Bono and the other celebrities at the malaria partnership last week, where the research frontier lies places like the Rockville laboratories of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI).
There, on a bucolic campus off the I-270 corridor, researchers quietly toil amid covered buckets of buzzing mosquitoes. Four varieties of anopheles mosquitoes gorge themselves on cups of blood provided for them and mate freely, producing thousands of eggs and larvae for study.
By manipulating the insects genes, researchers hope to discover a breakthrough that will have practical application in eradication of the malarial mosquito.
Writing in the August 2007 edition of the journal Genetics, four researchers associated with the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute described their progress with transposable elements or so-called jumping genes in the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, which is the most deadly malarial mosquito. The aim of researchers is to introduce into the wild modified mosquitoes that have been genetically stripped of the malaria blood parasite Plasmodium, in hopes they will mate and produce non-malaria-carrying offspring.
The insect labs are among other research laboratories on the Rockville campus through which the University of Maryland assists and collaborates with Maryland biotechnology companies working on disease control and a host of other biotechnology applications.
Other studies at the institute have involved a search to control fungal pathogens, determining how oyster parasites enter and infect host cells, and ways to biologically remove toxic PCBs from the nations waterways.
The institute also works with the Tech Council of Maryland, which is the trade association of more than 500 Maryland technology firms, and its MdBioLab, which is a mobile laboratory that travels to high schools to interest students in careers in bioscience. Using a modified tractor trailer, the lab can accommodate 32 students for hands-on, research-grade experiments like harvesting the DNA of strawberries.
Besides trying to find cures for infectious diseases like malaria, biotechnology research offers promise in curing genetic diseases including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and Huntingtons, which are caused by a single gene, as well as cancer, heart disease, asthma, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimers, which are caused by a host of genes.
The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute was the sponsor Oct. 7 of a lecture and panel discussion in the Dan Morhaim Lecture Series.
Owings Mills resident Dan Morhaim is a state delegate and emergency room physician. He is on the board of UMBI, which hosts an annual environmental lecture in his name that draws upon nationally recognized health and science experts. The latest lecture featured Dr

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