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Harnessing the Crowd to Make Better Drugs: Merck’s Friend Nails Down $5M to
Propel New Open Source Era
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| Sage is built on the premise that vast networks of genes get perturbed, or
| thrown off-kilter, in complex diseases like cancer, diabetes, and obesity.
| Scientists can’t just pick one faulty gene or protein and make a magic bullet
| to shut it down. But what if researchers around the world capturing genomic
| profiles on patients could get all of their data to talk to each other
| through a free, open database? A researcher in Seattle looking at how all
| 35,000 genes in breast cancer patients are dialed on or off at a certain
| stage of illness might be able to make critical comparisons by stacking
| results up against a deeper and broader data pool that integrates clinical,
| genetic, and other molecular data from peers in, say, San Francisco, New
| Haven, CT, or anywhere else.
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http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/02/harnessing-the-crowd-to-make-better-drugs-mercks-stephen-friend-nails-down-5m-to-propel-biology-into-open-source-era/
http://tinyurl.com/bcbjhs
Connexions: An Open Source Initiative to Kill Textbooks
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| If you haven't checked out TED, then you're missing out on some big ideas.
| The conference, who's acronym stands for "Technology, Entertainment, Design",
| seeks to uncover and showcase "ideas worth spreading." The annual conference
| brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and dowers, who are
| challenged to give the "talk of their lives" in under 18 minutes.
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http://www.collegemogul.com/3/1/09/Connexions-Open-Source-Initiative-to-Kill-Textbooks
Recent:
Academic Astroturfing for Medical Profits
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| JAMA has a rather scathing editorial condemning what is apparently the
| practice of ghostwriting and appending known specialists names as lead
| authors in studies that are then used to promote pharmaceuticals and medical
| devices.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/4/16/39686
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