Announcing the Health Commons

Check this out on the Science Commons blog:

Science Commons' mission is to speed the translation of basic research to useful discoveries, and we believe that a new approach is necessary to find more cures, faster. Today, we're opening up the Health Commons, a project aimed at bringing the same efficiencies to human health that the network brought to commerce and culture.

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The Health Commons proposes a different approach: enabling more companies, foundations, laboratories or even individuals to conduct research on disease targets efficiently, by providing better access to the resources that large pharmaceutical companies assemble and integrate "in house." To do this, Health Commons will facilitate the emergence of a "virtual marketplace," or ecosystem, through which participants can more easily access the data, knowledge, materials and services for accelerating research.