Open innovation challenge seeks solutions to type 1 diabetes
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 18:42
in Physics & Chemistry
The best scientific insights, which ultimately may lead to the solution of the world’s great puzzles, do not always come from the experts in the fields in question. Sometimes they come from outliers who approach a problem from an entirely new perspective — just as unknown English clockmaker John Harrison demonstrated that longitude could be determined by using an accurate timepiece and not, as almost all experts predicted, by the study of astronomy. So suppose the intellectual power of the entire Harvard community, more than 55,000 faculty members, students, and staff members, in all of the University’s schools and affiliated hospitals, was applied to a medical problem?read more