VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - December 17, 2007) - Upstream Biosciences Inc. (OTCBB: UPBS) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda with whom we plan to begin in vivo efficacy and toxicity testing of our novel compounds for the treatment of trypanosomiasis, or African sleeping sickness. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 60 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk of contracting this devastating condition spread by the tsetse fly. Sleeping sickness also afflicts cattle and other livestock and has been a major obstacle to livestock cultivation throughout the region.
