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Newt Gingrich recently wrote an editorial in the WSJ [subscription required] calling for greater use of prizes to solve the world’s problems. Regardless of what you think about Newt’s politics, it’s difficult to deny that the current grants-based process of funding science isn’t meeting our needs. Grants are too risk-averse and too [...]

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Here are four early-stage biomed-related online startups that have been in the news recently:
MedPedia — This is exactly what it sounds like, Wikipedia for medical information. They’ve enlisted top medical schools from the US, Canada, and the UK to seed the initial content, and will open the site up to MDs and PhDs to keep [...]

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