Getting into Crypto? 5 First Steps for the Crypto Curious
Everyone, including your grandma, is talking about it, and you’ve finally arrived at the party. You’ve decided it’s time to join the almost 7% of the world who use crypto…
Access to Research Funding Makes the Difference in Healthcare
Access to research funding is a pivotal factor in healthcare research, but traditional models often struggle to meet the demands of complex, long-term studies while remaining neutral. Corporate funding, for…
A Decentralized Peer-Review Process To Save Scientific Discourse
Within the research pipeline, the peer review process serves as a check on scientific publishing, helping to ensure that research is rigorously conducted and credible before it’s public. The peer…
What are smart contracts, and how do they work?
Imagine a world where contracts enforce themselves. No lawyers, no middlemen, no waiting — just automated agreements that execute as soon as certain conditions are met. This isn’t a scene…
Sharing is Caring: The Problem of Knowledge Silos
Sharing is important. It’s one of the first things we learn (or should’ve learned) while we toddled around in our most formative ages. You can even take the altruistic nature…
5 Ways Decentralized Clinical Trials Can Improve Research
As technology advances and evolves, there’s been an increasing push for more patient-centric, efficient, and transparent research. To help facilitate this push, decentralized science, or DeSci, has been one of…
Welcome, DAO Token Holder! 10 Benefits of Investing in a DAO
We don’t disparage anyone who chooses to invest in, well, anything, from day traders spinning small-cap stocks to crypto-enthusiasts pumping cat-forward meme tokens. That’s an individual’s prerogative and personal decision.…
How DeSci is Putting Power Back in the Hands of Researchers
Research makes the world go round. It’s not something people think about all the time – and in fact we probably take it a bit for granted. But research is…
When Academia Stymies Breakthrough Discoveries
The ancient Greek word for school is scholē. Although the word initially meant “leisure,” its meaning eventually evolved to mean “place for discussion”. Interestingly, the word “academy “comes from the…
Open Data Science: A Key to Decentralized Clinical Trials
As we explore new possibilities in modern healthcare, the marriage between data science and medical research is poised to be transformative, revolutionizing the way diseases are understood, diagnosed, and treated.…