Project Marilyn
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Chemist's Crusade For Open-Source Cancer Research
Isaac Yonemoto is a chemist, but he's been writing software code since he was a kid...[He's] using open source software techniques to kickstart the world of cancer research...
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How Crowdfunding And Open Source Research Will Fight Cancer
...A researcher named Isaac Yonemoto is applying some of the concepts of open source software initiatives to cancer research. Yonemoto is undertaking Project Marilyn, a campaign to develop a patent-free anticancer drug...
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This Scientist Is Using Open Sourced Software Techniques To Turn Bugs Into Patent-Free Drugs
Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs. Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes will prove we can use a compound sequenced from microscopic bug cultures to treat cancer...
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Would Jonas Salk Join The Open-Source Movement?
...While Salk’s lasting impression on medicine and its place in society is obvious, his philosophy on the patent-free development of the polio vaccine — and its applicability to the increasing influence of technology on biological and biomedical research — is also an important part of what he left behind...
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