Folic Acid Fortification a Success in Canada
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071101678.html
The folic acid fortification in place in Canada since 1998 has resulted in a 46% decline in neural tube birth defects. Authorities estimate that each dollar spent on folic acid fortification saves $100 in health care costs for children born with birth defects.

NSF funds effort to redesign Internet
BBN Technologies, a government contractor that played a key role in creating the Internet, is slated to oversee efforts to completely redesign the Internet, to address problems of security and mobility that have emerged since the Internet was created in 1969.

The National Science Foundation announced that BBN Technologies will get up to $10 million over four years to oversee the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI.

Gene therapy may cure blindness
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1623086,00.html

Fifteen years after scientists first isolated the gene for blindness, a team of U.K. doctors announced that they had replaced the faulty gene in a young man who had been blind for years.

Quick-Dissolve Strips Could Curb Illness That Kills Kids
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/29may07/29strips.html
A thin strip that dissolves in the mouth like a popular breath freshener could someday provide life-saving rotavirus vaccine to infants in impoverished areas. The innovative drug-delivery system was developed by Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering students.

Water for the World- A $3 gadget that promises to quench a user's thirst for a year without spare parts, electricity or maintenance.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19121634/site/newsweek/
The LifeStraw, created by Vestergaard Frandsen S.A., is a large straw that contains fine meshes, iodine, and carbon to filter unsafe drinking water and eliminate most harmful parasites. This straw could be used to aid the 1 billion people worldwide who currently lack access to safe drinking water.

New 'Asthma Gene' Could Lead to New Therapies
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/uom-ng070307.php
A University of Michigan study of 2,000 children has identified a gene called ORMDL3, a mutation of which is associated with a 60-70 percent increase in the likelihood of having asthma. The results were then supported by a sample of 3,000 people born in 1958 in whom the gene and asthma were linked.

Solar Power Heats Up With Nanotechnology (07/09/07)
http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/2007/07/09/nanotech-roscheisen-solar-pf-guru-in_jw_0709adviserqa_inl.html
Martin Roscheisen, an Austrian educated in America, is CEO of Nanosolar, a company that uses nanotechnology to produce solar energy products. The company recently raised $100 million for its new factory.