Crowdsourcing for research


Dr. Daniel Saltzman, pictured Nov. 18, 2013, says he can't afford to wait for Congress to restore funding for medical research, so he's turning to the public in an effort to raise $500,000. Saltzman is the chief of pediatric surgery at University of Minnesota Medical School. (Elizabeth Flores/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)

Impatient with the US NIH, a cancer researcher turns to crowdfunding for his work.

DR DANIEL Saltzman says he can prove that bacteria that ordinarily cause food poisoning in people can be modified for use as guided missiles to deliver cancer-killing payloads into tumours.

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