The linguistic analysis and prediction of Parkinson’s

Max Little knows how to detect early symptoms of Parkinson’s. Just call him By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT … Continue reading The linguistic analysis and prediction of Parkinson’s

High Speed Science: NIH vs. 23andMe Smackdown

via http://www.wired.com Another excellent article on turning the scientific method on its head using new web based social networking data mining methods versus hypothesis/testing. For example compares the conventional approach of NIH to that of 23andMe in studying Parkinson's which lead to a reduction in research time from 6 years to 8 months. Related articles … Continue reading High Speed Science: NIH vs. 23andMe Smackdown

Crowd-sourcing science: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

This guy has the money and the brains to turn the  hypothesis testing scientific method on its head and speed up our currently extremely expensive and slow drug discovery process using the power of the Internet to analyze massive data sets and look for patterns. Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure | Wired Magazine … Continue reading Crowd-sourcing science: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure