Open Source Medicine Projects

[fhapgood]

As I understand it, OSM consists of two overlapping populations and a
database. One population defines and publicizes research questions.
The second cruises these lists looking for proposals of interest.
When
they find one they volunteer to gather the desired data from their
own
bodies in return for access to the results. Results end up in the
database,
available to all and especially to succeeding researchers.

Sound good, but are there any actual OSM research projects underway.
Is anybody even prototyping the core data management issues???

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DIYbio" group.
To post to this group, send email to diy...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+un...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=en.

[Simon Quellen Field]

I suppose this gets around the problem of practicing medicine without

a license, as you are presumably allowed to practice on yourself.

It would seem a little hard to do double-blind studies this way, however.