In HIV research as in life, free and open information wins. Every time.

Various labels describe it: open-sourcing,  the hive-mind, crowd-sourcing. Take your pick but in the end, the idea is this: by increasing the availability of information and thereby increasing the number of people who access it, you simultaneously increase the probability of and shorten the time necessary to solving a problem. What’s this got to do with HIV research? Gamers solved a riddle that scientists and even the world’s most sophisticated computers hadn’t... Read More