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Empowering The Parents of Patients
Sharon Terry was desperate for information about the rare genetic condition that affected her two children. But when she tried to find the latest research, she ran into one roadblock after another. First, there was the challenge of getting her...
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Battling Disease with Open: Open Source Malaria Consortium
Challenge Each year, about 200 million people get sick with malaria, and about 600,000 people die from the infection—most of them young children[1]. The quest for new malaria therapeutics is a pressing ongoing public health issue. It’s particularly challenging, as...
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From Ideas to Industries: Human Genome Project
With openness as a core tenet, the Human Genome Project generated $965 billion in economic output between 1988 and 2012, creating more than $293 billion in personal income through wages and benefits, and nearly 4 million jobs. Challenge Scientists wanted...
