:Pink Army Cooperative Uses Open Source Principles to Treat Breast Cancer
Pink Army Cooperative Uses Open Source Principles to Treat Breast Cancer Nov 4, 2009, 14 :33 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (917 reads) (Other stories by Lisa Hoover)
"According to information provided by Pink Army [PDF], "The core technology is synthetic biology, a platform for high-speed genetic engineering. An open source therapeutic design engine is coupled with automated DNA synthesis and personal-scale manufacturing processes to make person-specific bio-medicines.cooperative. Each synthetic therapeutic will be rigorously tested, openly reviewed, submitted to the FDA for approval, and used only in the person for which was designed, resulting in a single person (n=1) clinical trial. Personalized treatments are expected to be specific, safe, and available for use clinically much faster than those made with traditional development techniques -- a revolution in personalized medicine."