NICHE OPPORTUNITIES OPEN IN PHARMA

An open source pharma roadmap

In an Essay, Matthew Todd and colleagues discuss an open source approach to drug development.

Good pharma? Bad pharma? Better pharma.

Opportunities for Open Source eLearning

E-Learning is often conceived as a single product. In reality, however, the market offering is very heterogeneous with a large product variety. Think of learning management systems, virtual classrooms, authorware, test and assessment tools, simulators, and many more. Each of these e-learning applications is available from multiple vendors and middlemen. Next to more than 250 providers of commer...

The leukemic stem cell niche: current concepts and therapeutic opportunities.

The genetic events that contribute to the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia are among the best characterized of all human malignancies. However, with notable exceptions such as acute promyelocytic leukemia, significant improvements in outcome based on these insights have not been forthcoming. Acute myeloid leukemia is a paradigm of cancer stem (or leukemia initiating) cells with hierarchy ...

Open-source Hardware: Opportunities and Challenges

Innovation in hardware is slowing due to rising costs of chip design and diminishing benefits from Moore’s law and Dennard scaling. Software innovation, on the other hand, is flourishing, helped in good measure by a thriving open-source ecosystem. We believe that open source can similarly help hardware innovation, but has not yet due to several reasons. We identify these reasons and how the ind...