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Taking a leaf out of Amul’s textbook to help rare-disease patients

Just as Amul and the other cooperatives it inspired made India milk-secure and secured the livelihoods of millions of farmers, so too could a patient data collective have an outsized impact on drug discovery for most rare diseases, contributing to the health of many patients who currently have few treatment options

Taking a leaf out of Amul’s textbook to help rare-disease patients

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