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Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by BorisVSchmid on Saturday January 30, 2016 @08:35AM (#11001722)
Can we add some nuance here? It is not like in the last few decades there has been no new knowledge generated.

Just in my own field of biology, the amount of progress we have made in understanding how cells regulate themselves (20 year ago we were still teaching DNA->RNA->PROTEINS that do stuff), how immune systems function and can be used (stem cell therapy, cancer treatments, HIV drugs) and the flow of genetic information between organisms (the advance of (whole) genome sequencing into becoming a generic tool) has been mind-boggling.

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Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by jspaulding on Saturday January 30, 2016 @03:34PM (#11003617)
I agree -- we're making great progress. Science IS working. My point is really just that since the advent of the internet, we've had the potential of making progress much faster.
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Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by zardo on Saturday January 30, 2016 @05:54PM (#11004185)
We are without a doubt making progress, the question is, how much more progress could we be making with a better system to organize the thoughts and efforts of scientists around the world.
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