Gates-funded scientists obtain malaria medicine from baker's yeast

After many years of research, there's still no effective vaccine for malaria, a parasite that kills hundreds of thousands yearly in Africa and Asia. But scientists have figured out a way to mass-produce the most effective treatment at industrial scale using a genetically engineered strain of baker's yeast. The study was published in Nature and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the nonprofit drug developer OneWorldHealth. "It's the volatility that really makes the supply chain...