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Title    Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drugs
Date    Tuesday October 28 2014, @07:56PM
Author    azrael
Topic   
from the drug-patents-shouldn't-exist dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/28/1228251

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.

Links
  1. "AnonTechie" - https://soylentnews.org/~AnonTechie/
  2. "Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign" - http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/26/this-scientist-is-using-open-sourced-software-techniques-to-turn-bugs-into-patent-free-drugs/
  3. "Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs" - http://pledge.indysci.org/liberate-pharmaceuticals
  4. "IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics" - http://www.imshealth.com/portal/site/imshealth/menuitem.762a961826aad98f53c753c71ad8c22a/?vgnextoid=af47009812568410VgnVCM10000076192ca2RCRDvgnextchannel=a64de5fda6370410VgnVCM10000076192ca2RCRDvgnextfmt=default
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