Open Innovation

Collaborative and distributed approaches to hard research problems.

17 articles

Big Pharma to Get Apple’s ResearchKit Into Their Clinical Trials.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Purdue Pharma have declared their interest in Apple´s ResearchKit platform to gather medical data from iPhone users. The big pharmaceutical companies see it as an...

Apps

An Interview with Gilbert Faure on Knowledge Management

Labcritics was at Science & You 2015 in Nancy, France. One of the most interesting workshops we attended, in the Science Communication and Digital Technologies...

Crowdsourcing

Scientific Articles Will Be Visually Disseminated by an Infographics Journal

A science blogger is seeking funds on experiment.com to launch the first infographics journal called Draw Science.  The journal aims to transforms research articles into concise, understandable...

Crowdfunding
macbook

Profoundly Improved WriteLaTeX Rebrands as Overleaf

WriteLaTeX is rebranding itself to WriteLatex to Overleaf, thereby indicating the completion of its transition from an online Latex document editing system to a whole new way...

New Launch
nature publishing group

Nature Opens Doors: All Papers Now Freely Available, Well Almost!

Update: In a very obvious and necessary move, the 144 year old Nature Publishing Group has made all its 48 journal’s open access  free to access. Through ReadCube,...

Open Innovation
Genome sequencing challenge

Genomics XPRIZE Becomes a Victim of Innovation

Two weeks before the competition deadline the organizers of the Archon Genomics X-Prize announced its cancellation, citing that a competition wasn’t necessary to push innovation...

Biotechnology
bio formats, glencoe software

Open Microscopy App: Unifying Biological Image Data

High resolution images are ubiquitous in biological research, making the process of analyzing, saving, sharing and publishing them pivotal to research. Images promote scientific integrity,...

Apps

Fraxinus Game Crowdsources Fight Against Deadly Plant Disease

Science can be fun, and the scientists from Sainsbury Laboratory along with Team Cooper, a Sheffield, UK based gaming company are literally trying to prove...

Networking