In James Surowiecki’s book “The Wisdom of Crowds”, he lays out the criteria for successful decision making by large groups1: Diversity of opinion...

The Make Your Mark competition, part of Scientist’s Open Science Challenge series, is now officially live in San Diego, New York, and Boston...

For decades the model for how a clinical diagnostic assay (otherwise known as a clinical diagnostic, or a diagnostic test) was developed remained...

Yesterday we published in Scientific American’s blog a call to action about the Scientist-sponsored Rare Disease Science Challenge. If you or a...

A Scientist user reminded me last week of Atul Butte’s TEDMED 2012 talk, which showcases Scientist’s outsourcing marketplace. While speaking about...

There is an argument that says we should not be making simple compounds in academic research labs, but rather using specialist services to make...

It’s not every month that a company gets a new laboratory, but for AstraZeneca PLC, July was one of those months. The pharmaceutical giant launched...

Scientist is launching a new science competion for high school students: SAN DIEGO — Scientist Inc., the world’s leading provider of outsourced...

Innovation = knowledge + creativity + work. At Scientist, we try to reduce the barriers to all three elements of that equation via Scientist, but...

Scientist has always operated on mission of “empowering scientists.” What that boils down to is continuously asking ourselves “does this help...