Indysci Founder Isaac Yonemoto: ‘I Was Presented with a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Develop a Drug without Patents’
As we reported last week, Indysci is a new project funds open-source scientific projects that anyone can look at, modify, or use. The first project on the agenda, dubbed Project Marilyn, will pour donations into research for a patent-less cure for cancer. The organization accepts Bitcoin, and if they receive enough Bitcoin donations, they will name an anticancer drug after Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto: Satoshimycin. Basically, Bitcoin donations are helping along scientific crowdfunding site with a non-traditional fundraising bent. Now CoinTelegraph had an opportunity to explore Isaac....
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Dr. Isaac Yonemoto who is the founder of Indysci.org has started a project called "Project Marilyn" that is a scientific initiative to study the cancer fighting compound called 9DS. He thinks that it might become the crucial weapon to fight skin, kidney and breast cancer. Yonemoto wants to share all his findings with the world as open-source and without patents, just like Bitcoin that operates with an open-source protocol. He even wants to crowdfund the project itself using Bitcoins. To fund Project Marilyn Yonemoto and his team seek to raise at least 75,000 USD from 1,000 people. Their....
The bitcoin community is notoriously generous, and donations to cancer research are no exception. Isaac Yonemoto, a PhD scientist in chemistry and biophysics, is trying to raise money to complete work on a promising cancer fighting compound called 9DS in an initiative called Project Marilyn. Yonemoto told CoinDesk: "I'm raising money to finish preclinical experiments on the anticancer compound 9DS. Research on this compound has been abandoned twice, so third time's the charm." Although it is still in the preclinical stage, according to the Project Marilyn website, 9DS has potential as an....
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has become the first national legislature to release a non-fungible token. The special NFT has been created for the country’s new president, Isaac Herzog, who took office this week after his election in early June. Knesset Becomes First Parliament to Issue NFT Isaac Herzog received the token right before his inauguration on Wednesday, the Jerusalem Post reported. The unique NFT represents a copy of the original oath signed by his late father, Israel’s sixth president, Chaim Herzog. President Isaac Herzog With the symbolic gesture, the....
A large section of dopers is using internet to purchase recreational drugs, regardless of the closure of Silk Road previous year, says a new research. Silk Road was by far the most notorious online marketplace to sell and purchase illegal products, which also included a wide range of unauthorized narcotics. Last year, Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a raid, closed down its website and later quoted it as the "the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet". Meanwhile, Silk Road's founder and operator Ross Ulbricht also received a lifetime in prison, a....
Ethereum has drawn many comparisons with early Bitcoin, and is expected to grow in value substantially and make for life-changing wealth. Those that missed out on the initial run up are in luck, however, as one crypto analyst says that the recent bullish retest presents a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Here’s an in-depth look at the bullish […]