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Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2006 -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $287 million in new AIDS-vaccine grants last week. The catch for recipients, however, is they are required to share their findings early on (e.g., prior to publication). The idea is that such pooling of results could surmount hurdles that have hindered individual research efforts--hopefully making an AIDS vaccine a reality that much sooner. The Wall Street Journal (Subscription required).