Jenny Molloy
Fellow | Director & | Working towards an open, sustainable and equitable bioeconomy
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Global Health Technologies: Time To Re-Think The ‘Trickle Down’ Model
Forbes 142d 35 tweets
Technologies are critical for addressing global health needs, but the ‘trickle down’ model has limitations. If the end goal is to save lives and do it quickly, then innovations from the Global South must be given a chance.
The Rolling, Lurching, Vomit-Inducing Road to a Seasickness Cure | Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine - Hakai Magazine 26d 1 tweets
Searching for a solution has its ups and downs.
Jenny Molloy As a lifelong sufferer of motion sickness (which made for many miserable X5 journeys between Cambridge and Oxford as a student), this was a really interesting read on the science of seasickness 26d
Reagent Collaboration Network – a global collaboration for equitable access to biotechnology
Reclone.org 30d 1 tweets
Covid-19 Testing Is Expensive. It Doesn't Have to Be
Wired 39d 4 tweets
The diagnostics industry favors wealthy countries, but the rest of the world needs tests, too. Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash thinks "frugal science can help.
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Jenny Molloy Covid-19 Testing Is Expensive. It Doesn't Have to Be. in on challenges and opportunities for local manufacturing of tests and reagents. Join to find scientists in Africa, Latin America and Asia making this a reality 35d
Built With Biology — The Bioeconomy Summit - SynBioBeta
SynBioBeta 35d 1 tweets
Built With Biology is a strategy and policy recommendation to create a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable bioeconomy for all. #biostrategy #bioeconomy #builtwithbiology
Jenny Molloy I'm excited to join , Rick Johnson & Andrew Marshall to talk about how #opensource biotech is Open For Business at #BuiltWithBiology today. Registrations still open! #synbio 35d
Economists must collaborate courageously
Nature.com 40d 18 tweets
To navigate pandemic trade-offs, policymakers need syntheses.
Jenny Molloy "It’s time to deliver on the benefits of public investment in research." Diane Coyle on the need for economists to engage with other disciplines to "synthesize new findings with old - fast" and inform public policy 35d
Viral Response Roundtable - Session no. 4 - How to audit and secure accreditation for your COVID product?
Zoom Video 36d 1 tweets
Viral Response has been developed by Wikifactory to bring communities together in response to COVID19, and to help create a more resilient world beyond. Our regular Roundtables bring these communities together directly to share insights and...
WHO Recognizes the Open COVID Pledge as a Means to Advance Research and Science in the Fight Against COVID-19 – Open Covid Pledge
Opencovidpledge.org 40d 1 tweets
Experts sound alarm over lack of Covid-19 test kits in Africa
the Guardian 43d 10 tweets
Global competition for kits and national constraints cause concern as lockdowns ease
Jenny Molloy Two articles that describe the situation for many colleagues in Africa (and elsewhere) trying to scale testing in midst of extreme supply chain disruptions: lack of kits , reliance on international collaborators to help plug gaps: 42d
Scientific networks are helping African countries to access coronavirus lab supplies
Nature.com 43d 3 tweets
African scientists are using international connections to boost their countries’ virus-fighting capabilities.
Jenny Molloy Two articles that describe the situation for many colleagues in Africa (and elsewhere) trying to scale testing in midst of extreme supply chain disruptions: lack of kits , reliance on international collaborators to help plug gaps: 42d
Let’s Make Open Better, Together
Collaborative Knowledge Foundation 42d 1 tweets
Jenny Molloy Looking at the amazing #OpenPublish Fest and wishing for more hours in the day. If you have time, go! Here's a summary from of some highlighted events this week on the theme "Let’s Make Open Better, Together" #openaccess #openscience 42d
Journal of Open Hardware
Openhardware.metajnl.com 43d 1 tweets
The Journal of Open Hardware (JOH) is an international open access peer reviewed academic publication for open hardware research and development.JOH accepts submissions which cover technical, legal, scientific, educational, economic, and...
Jenny Molloy #COVID19 has led to the largest mobilisation of #openhardware we've ever seen. has launched a special collection to make better sense of that from a range of research perspectives. Check out the call for papers at 43d
Should African countries embrace Ghana’s Covid-19 'pooled testing'? - MyJoyOnline.com
MyJoyOnline.com 46d 2 tweets
A curious thing happened about a week ago. The Government of Ghana, which has been touting its investments into Covid-19 testing capacity to universal acclaim, as the country galloped up the continental league tables, suddenly found itself in the...
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Jenny Molloy Very informative breakdown of Ghana's #covid19 pooled testing strategy by 46d
Coronavirus: everyone wins when patents are pooled
Nature.com 49d 16 tweets
It took a collaborative global effort to reveal the structures of key coronavirus proteins. That spirit is being tested as vaccine development gets under way.
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Jenny Molloy Coronavirus: everyone wins when patents are pooled - great editorial "It's a tribute to..scientists..that they immediately understood that a pandemic requires a vastly different way of working. It is a tragedy that some national governments do not" 47d
Social Distancing Werewolf – Sean Bonner
Blog.seanbonner.com 48d 1 tweets
Jenny Molloy Most fun I've had in a while - playing Social Distancing Werewolf devised by the "self appointed God of Werewolf" . It worked *remarkably* well. Give it a try! 48d
COVID-19: Behind SA’s shortages of test materials • Spotlight
Spotlight - Spotlight 64d 5 tweets
Like many other countries, South Africa is struggling to access adequate testing materials to scale up COVID-19 testing. Catherine Tomlinson investigates.
Jenny Molloy This is a good description of the multi-faceted reasons for #covid19 diagnostic supply shortages, focused on South Africa but applicable to many other countries 49d
Tech Access Partnership, a new UN initiative to strengthen developing countries’ responses to COVID-19 – Open Covid Pledge
Opencovidpledge.org 49d 1 tweets
Virus exposes gaping holes in Africa’s health systems
Reuters Graphics - Reuters 62d 20 tweets
Africa could become the next epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic with limited resources to fight back.
Jenny Molloy Reuters data on COVID response in 48 African countries. The results primarily reflect the huge resource challenges but do highlight what I knew to be true from collaborators: Ghana has done a really impressive job with testing 52d
Help developing countries to manufacture their own medical equipment to solve supply shortages
The Telegraph 60d 5 tweets
The new coronavirus has exposed the staggeringly uneven distribution of life-saving medical equipment across the world.
Plan C: Challenging Challenges | Make:
Dale Dougherty - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers 64d 1 tweets
Now is not the time to stand up your organization’s design challenge or hackathon. It’s not productive and it’s not a good way for your organization to help.
Jenny Molloy "Why not throw out the whole ill-advised framework of a challenge?" crtitiques the role of challenges and hackathons in the midst of the #opensource technology explosion we are seeing emerge in the #COVID19 crisis 64d