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Interesting - AstraZeneca taps crowd sourcing to find cancer drug cocktails

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/us-astrazeneca-cancer-idUSKCN0RM0MG20150922

 

The cynical part of me thinks they just purchased a bunch of good press, the hopeful part of me sees a company trying to do something right along these lines

 

"AstraZeneca's decision to make a large data set available to outside researchers is a further example of the drugs industry exploring ways to share research at an early pre-competitive stage."

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