In this episode, Prof. Ernst Hafen from ETH Zurich tells us how citizens can play a very important role in biomedical research and drug discovery. Recruiting the right patients for a study is a big challenge for biotech and pharma companies. He presents us his radical initiative midata.coop, which allows patients to store their health data in a secure way and allows them to participate in clinical studies. Part 1 of a very interesting interview.

In this episode, we learn how Huntington's disease researcher Rachel Harding uses an open lab notebook to share her findings with the scientific community and writes a blog for a wider audience. Most science is not conducted like that and findings take a long while to be disseminated. What are the main benefits of doing open research? Why haven't more researchers adopted this yet? What areas of biomedical science are most suitable for open research?

Open Research: How to build a collaborative research network through open lab notebook with Dr. Rachel Harding

Sarah Constantin is a mathematician & data scientist with a PhD from Yale.

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In this podcast, we get to know Marcio van Muehlen, a biological engineer from MIT turned entrepreneur & product manager in Silicon Valley. He was working on cancer diagnostics through blood sampling and wanted to have better access to the work from other scientists in the field. There he recognized early on that we need a github for science and published a widely referenced article on it in 2011. We talk about why we need a github for science, what has happened since he wrote the article and what is still preventing us from having more open collaboration.