How crowdsourcing can spur innovation in hepatitis B and C testing
The HepTestContest was a global innovation contest that used crowdsourcing in order to solicit novel hepatitis B and C testing strategies and enrich… Read more »
The HepTestContest was a global innovation contest that used crowdsourcing in order to solicit novel hepatitis B and C testing strategies and enrich… Read more »
‘Big Data’ is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our lives, and we at GigaScience are big fans of approaches democratizing its utility through… Read more »
The availability of good diagnostics is central to both the treatment and control of infectious diseases. Since parasitic and… Read more »
Citizen science - the public participation in gathering data for scientific studies - is certainly not new, but facilitated by the… Read more »
Posted on behalf of Shreeya Nanda, Deputy Editor for Biology and Medicine, BioMed Central At this year’s BMC Day, the… Read more »
Last month, staff at BioMed Central took a day off from publishing science, to get involved in doing some! One of several citizen… Read more »
A few weeks back, staff here at BioMed Central took some time out to turn the tables on publishing science by becoming citizen… Read more »
What can the general public contribute to scientific research? Quite a lot as it turns out… Imagine how many hours are spent… Read more »
It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of… Read more »