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“Everything is better with Science!” Alright, perhaps that was a little obvious. Nevertheless, by using open source ideas in the scientific community, we only work to enhance the discoveries found during any given research.
Scientists from Sydney to San Francisco have created an online research collaboration to develop cures for tropical diseases, using the “open source” programming model that produced freeware like Linux and Firefox, the award-winning Web browser.
The motivation is straightforward: Tropical diseases are low priority for big pharma because the return on drug development is so small. Patients in developing nations just don’t have the financial ability to pay for patented drugs…. Source: acs.org