TIL of ‘shepardising’, a technique used by lawyers while doing legal research, that Martine Rothblatt adapted to quickly learning everything there was to know about her daughter’s life-threatening illness.
1:26
399 views
4
3
27
Conversation
The story's actually pretty ridiculous: shortly after shepardising the research literature, Rothblatt found a single study about a molecule for congestive heart failure that failed for its primary purpose, but did EXACTLY what she needed for her daughter’s illness.
1:30
153 views
4
2
Replying to
The tenacity and personal fire of this story is so inspiring, and reminds me also of this other story of a computer scientist basically supercharging personalized medicine for ultra-rare genetic disorders, to help his son: matt.might.net/articles/tenur
1
1