Gates, Wellcome Award Nearly $8 Million for Faster TB Diagnosis | News | PND

"The University of Oxford has announced grants totaling nearly $8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and others in support of efforts to speed up diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis....The grants will enable Oxford researchers to expand that library [of genomce sequences] by collecting and analyzing a hundred thousand additional samples from around the world....The Oxford team will then assemble the results into a single open-access database...."