open-sourcing the human body
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"Open Humans" Launches Online Platform to Share DNA and other Medical Data
Press Release |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Knight Foundation, PersonalGenomes.org |
March 24, 2015
A group of top university scientists just launched a project to build a community of researchers and participants who want to benefit medical progress – by using technology to open up health data. The “Open Humans Network,” created by researchers from Harvard, New York University and the University of California San Diego, is backed by a $1 million investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, each of which contributed $500,000 in separate grants.
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