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Electrically spun fabric offers dual defense against pregnancy, HIV

By Hannah Hickey

November 30, 2012

Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers show promise as a cheap, versatile platform to simultaneously offer contraception and prevent HIV. New funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will further test the system’s versatility and feasibility.

Living Voters Guide adds fact-checking by Seattle librarians for 2012 election

By Hannah Hickey

October 17, 2012

The Living Voters Guide, created by the UW and presented with Seattle’s CityClub, just won a regional award and has been updated for the 2012 election. This year the guide has expanded to include a California edition, and the Washington guide will include fact-checking of selected points by Seattle Public Library staff.

Sticky paper offers cheap, easy solution for paper-based diagnostics

By Hannah Hickey

October 2, 2012

Global health researchers are working on cheap systems like a home-based pregnancy test that might work for malaria, diabetes or other diseases. A new chemical technique makes medically interesting molecules stick to regular paper — a possible route to building such paper-based diagnostics from paper you could buy at an office-supply store.

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