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Can a mosquito be transformed into a “flying syringe,” so that when the insect bites a human, it delivers a vaccine instead of transmitting a disease?  That is one of the ideas which received a $100,000 award by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this week. The awards were made to 104 scientists from 22 nations in the the first round of what is to become a regular practice as the foundation seeks to develop transformational ideas that will help revolutionize health care. The notion  of a mosquito as an airborne syringe  was submitted by Hiroyuki Matsuoka from Jichi Medical University in Japan and was one of 4,000 proposals considered.  Evidently, that high-flying proposal had more bite.