Geoffrey Siwo's 'United Genomes Project'

From Timbuktu Chronicles Wed Oct 1 2014, 02:17:00

Over at OZY:

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Geoffrey Siwo wants to accelerate drug discovery by enlisting the help of millions of Internet users around the world -- not research insitutions or Big Pharma.There are more than 10,000 diseases on the planet, asthma to zygomycosis. Geoffrey Siwo wants to cure all of them.

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