Lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding development of new medicines
Monday, August 23, 2010 - 12:29
in Biology & Nature
An unlikely effort is underway to lift the veil of nearly-total secrecy that has surrounded the process of developing new prescription drugs for the last century, scientists said today at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The upheaval in traditional practice would make key data available to college students, university professors, and others in an open, collective process.