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Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drugs

posted by azrael on Tuesday October 28 2014, @07:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the drug-patents-shouldn't-exist dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs.

Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes will prove we can use a compound sequenced from microscopic bug cultures to treat cancer.

It’s a plan that could liberate pharmaceuticals and dramatically lower the cost of anticancer medicine. The global market for these drugs surpassed $1 trillion this year. The average monthly cost of a brand-name cancer drug in the U.S. is about $10,000, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by RobotMonster on Tuesday October 28 2014, @08:43PM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Tuesday October 28 2014, @08:43PM (#110976) Journal

    Part of the problem is that big pharma tend not to research anything they can't patent.

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