Mining the 'wisdom of crowds' to attack disease

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 18:14 in Psychology & Sociology

A large, multidisciplinary panel has recently selected 12 pioneering ideas for attacking type 1 diabetes, ideas selected through a "crowd-sourcing" experiment called the Challenge in which all members of the Harvard community, as well as members of the general public, were invited to answer the question: What do we not know to cure type 1 diabetes?

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