Open Source Drug Discovery Prompts a Fundamental Heart Failure Breakthrough

An anonymous reader writes "Case-Western researchers, led by Saptarsi Haldar MD., have made a fundamental discovery that could prevent heart failure after reviewing the "chemical recipe" for a cancer-treating molecule made open source by Jay Bradner MD. (whose TED Talk articulates the open source approach to drug discovery) This cross-discipline discovery, which was published in the August 2013 issue of CELL, is a fundamental breakthrough in heart failure research, and highlights the value of an open source approach outside of software development."

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Re:Awe Man!

[ultranova]

The companies that those billionaires own are what drive the economy and do things like grow and distribute our food.

No, the people working the fields grow the food and the people driving the trucks and manning the cash register distribute it. And even the organizational work is mostly done by middle managers. All the billionaires do is get a cut of other people's work and occasionally destroy their livelihoods.

Sure, I can read an open-source book or listen to open-source music, but typically I prefer the commercial products.

And you think it takes a billionaire to write a book or a song?

In other words, if you give a man a hammer, all he will see are nails.

And if you give him a billion dollars, all he will see are the serfs he's entitled to.