Crowdsourcing Tackles Type 1 Diabetes
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:56
in Mathematics & Economics
Can crowdsourcing lead to better medicine? Crowdsourcing is used in astronomy and protein folding in biology, along with engineering and computer software. But can the 'wisdom of crowds' also help cure disease?It's certainly possible. An unheralded clockmaker in England named John Harrison showed that longitude could be determined by using a timepiece, making the study of astronomy by experts overkill and revolutionizing travel by seaA group at Harvard created The Challenge in February to find out if citizen science could work for diabetes research too, and their results are in. read more