STAT June 22, 2021
Megan Molteni

For as long as people have pointed telescopes at the night sky and slipped drops of pond water under microscopes, competition has been as much a part of the scientific enterprise as curiosity, creativity, and discovery. And for centuries, that has served humanity well. Rivalries push fields forward; Tesla versus Edison sparked the electrical revolution, Pasteur versus Koch showed us how to fight once invisible sources of infection, Joliet-Curie versus Meitner ushered in the nuclear age.

But a global health crisis is no time for guarding secrets. In the last year and a half, Covid-19 showed the world what’s possible when scientists put collaboration first.

On Tuesday, as part of the Milken Institute’s Future of Health Summit, STAT executive editor...

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