by ginger | Feb 3, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open participation science, press
The San Diego Union Tribune did a nice little article on Mark2Cure, which helped us reach a lot of local citizen scientist volunteers. If you missed the article, you can read it here. If you joined Mark2Cure because of the UT San Diego, THANK YOU, and please help...
by ginger | Jan 30, 2015 | crowdsourcing, mark2cure
If you haven’t seen or don’t have time to watch Andrew’s excellent Tedx talk explaining how Mark2Cure works, here’s a quick summary and brief explanation why we NEED YOU to join us. It takes about thirty minutes to read one of many articles...
by ginger | Jan 27, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
I used SavingCase’s tweet because it highlights how important the internet has become for connecting people and how people share information. (I might have missed Susannah’s piece if not for that tweet.) That patient-patient connection is number three in a...
by ginger | Jan 23, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Did you know that a new biomedical research article is published every 30 seconds?! It’s become impossible for researchers to read every paper relevant to their field of research. Mark2Cure allows citizen scientists to help biomedical researchers make research...
by ginger | Jan 16, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The results from Mark2Cure’s limited holiday test were promising. Special thanks to all the participants! Mark2Cure is now gearing up for its 1st major experiment to demonstrate that citizen scientists (like yourself) CAN and WILL use Mark2Cure to help...
by ginger | Dec 12, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, sulab
As mentioned in Andrew’s Tedx Talk in this post, one of the grand challenges in scientific research is creating a system where all scientists can can access the knowledge embedded within the entirety of research literature. With such a system, scientists would...
