LabCritics 2.0: Renewing Our Vows
Labcritics began a decade ago with the intention to focus on incredible tools and apps that were built for researchers to make research easier/faster/cheaper –...
Biotechnology
Crowdsourcing
Distributed contribution to research – citizen science and community projects.
12 articles
Jascha Blobel: ” Gamification Helps Us to Discover New Drugs”
Labcritics presents an interview with Jascha Blobel, CEO of Molomics, the first company that gamifies the drug discovery process. You will soon be able to...
Apps
Bento Lab: DNA Laboratory for Your Backpack
A new Kickstarter campaign has just gone live with the aim of manufacturing a laptop sized DNA lab that includes three quintessential tools necessary for DNA...
Crowdfunding
A Crowdsourced Comic for Lab Complaints
The Nature Publishing Group has recently opened a webpage where scientists can submit their lab gripes. Murphy´s Lab is an interesting initiative where people can complain...
Crowdsourcing
New Biomarker Predicts Long-Term Risk of Infection and Death
GlycA levels in blood can tell whether a person has an increased risk of severe infection. The finding by researchers from the Universities of Oulu...
Bioinformatics
23andMe Gets FDA Authorization to Provide Limited Health Reports
The genetic testing company 23andMe has finally been authorized by the FDA to offer customers limited health reports. 23andMe offered genetic information from just a saliva...
Biomedicine
Contribute Processing Power to Science and Earn CryptoCurrency
Stanford University based distributed computing platform Folding@Home has launched Foldingcoin, a new Cryptocurrency platform to award CPU & GPU contributors for to tabulate and analyse...
Blog
FDA Sponsors Crowdsourced Genomics Platform: precisionFDA
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its attempts to play catchup to a new breed of genomics based companies and the burst...
Biotechnology