Blended Learning Open Source Science Or Math Studies, or BLOSSOMS, seeks to show students that math and science pertain to their daily lives while also encouraging critical thinking skills. Read More »

OpenClinica, the world's first professionally supported open source clinical trial software for Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Clinical Data Management (CDM), has unveiled its new OpenClinica Optimized Hosting solution. Read More »

Today, let's talk about a long-running schism within the open-source software movement over license types. Read More »

IBM's Blue Spruce technology enables Web collaboration in iTel's iTelepsych service and research on COPD at the National Institutes of Health. Read More »

AirStrip Technologies, developer of a software platform that connects patient information from hospital monitoring systems, bedside devices and EHRs to clinicians’ mobile devices, announced on Sept. 12 the appointment of Dr. Hon S. Pak as a senior advisor to the company. Read More »

Biopharma companies are pursuing open-innovation collaborations with an eye on speeding up research and discovery work. Academic and independent research institutions are also teaming up with industry to discover new treatments under this open-source model. Read More »

The software industry was a trailblazer in the field of open-source innovation. Savings to users were estimated at about $60 billion a year, according to a 2008 study by The Standish Group International. Open-source collaboration has now spread to the biopharma industry, among others. Read More »

The National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid Infrastructure hasn’t had much of an impact in Europe, according to a report from the European Association for Cancer Research that sought to identify caBIG's penetration in European laboratories. Read More »

I can understand that 'civil society' in developing countries may be able to provide the expertise, knowledge and comunication tools to engage with aid transparency in their country, but as more and more momentum seems to be generated around aid transparency, I wonder who will do this in donor countries or for international organisations. Read More »

The current approach to commercializing university inventions is due for an overhaul. Yet, universities and federal agencies continue to invest money and resources in initiatives and programs that merely re-hash the technology commercialization model we already have... Read More »