Harvard-Based Crowdsource Project Seeks New Diabetes Answers — & Questions

For years, we’ve had no place to ask the question, ‘Why isn’t somebody looking into this?’

We want questions as well as answers, and we need to get them from a broader community because the same old people asking the same old questions in the same old way with slightly newer technology is not moving things fast enough or broadly enough for us to cope with these incredibly complicated diseases.

It’s reaching into the formerly unconnected, or poorly connected, pockets of information and knowledge that are out there, that are otherwise not wired in.

Research today is often about publishing. Tearing down those boundaries can do nothing but compress the rates at which we drive innovation through these systems, and it is desperately needed.

But medical researchers, especially young ones, have ample incentive to participate despite research’s tradition of information control. The contest offers them a chance for them to earn their stripes on the fast track. Rather than filtering their ideas through the normal chain of command, or keeping their head down focused on a few specific micro-problems for their lab, they gain access to the big questions — and full credit for answering them.

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anyway, po neuspechoch u piatich doktorov som sa minule zavrtal do wikipedie+google, a zacal hladat dovod alergii, ktore mi dost nicili zivot.. vacsina informacii bola strasne zamotana, a aj kamarat student mediciny mal problem najst tie informacie, napriklad v x-stranovom clanku o imunoglobuline E na wiki neni ani slovo o tom, ze kto ich vyraba.. neskor som sa po masivnom googleni vselijakych suvisiach keywordov dopracoval k informacii, ze prichadzaju z plasma cells (zatial nebol cas riesit to dalej, ale ak pride iniciativa, tak si ho najdem..), ale zatial som nenasiel mechanizmus, ktory je navine alergii..

alergia znamena, ze sa tvori vela protilatok IgE, a tym padom telo reaguje prehnane - ak mi vie niekto z mediciny pomoct odpovedanim na konkretne otazky, tak by som bol vdacny.. z programovania mam kurva dobre skilly v debugovani, viem ako sa prevrtat k pricinam, ako spozorovat ak nieco nie je uplne v poriadku, atd..

s komplet dostupnymi informaciami a pripadne laboratornou technikou odhadujem najdenie priciny alergii na maximalne ROK vyskumu (ked neratam zdrzovanie technikou, cakanie na vysledky), a dalsi rok na najdenie riesenia [a ak sa dostanem k prachom, tak mam v plane zalozit slovensky labak, a nakopat rit aj rakovine a vsetky tym srackam]