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"Open Source" Drug Development Company Launched

Posted by samzenpus on from the wisdom-of-the-drugged-crowd dept.

First time accepted submitter awjourn writes "During his years working in pharma R&D, Tomasz Sablinski was frustrated by the industry's need for secrecy and its utter inability to design patient-friendly drug trials. So he founded Transparency Life Sciences, a company that's developing three drugs based on input from patients and physicians, who log onto the company's site and voice their opinions about how drugs should be designed and tested."

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  1. Re:May we have some new antibiotics? PLEASE????? by Kozz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By FAR the biggest need for drugs we have is for new antibiotics.

    Nope. That's just a treadmill-like arms race. What you want are bacteriophages.

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