How Long Have I Got Left?

Re:How Long Have I Got Left? by melling on Friday January 24, 2014 @10:46PM (#7119760)

"And then my health began to improve, thanks to a pill that targets a specific genetic mutation tied to my cancer."

Isn't tailoring drugs to specific mutations the next big revolution in medicine that we've been waiting for? Steve Jobs had his DNA sequenced to help fight his cancer.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_had_his...

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Re:How Long Have I Got Left? by gregpilling on Friday January 24, 2014 @11:31PM (#7119858)

Yes, I am friends with Dr. Mark Nelson at University of Arizona and he is doing a startup in that area. http://pathology.arizona.edu/faculty/mark-nelson-phd

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Re:How Long Have I Got Left? by CreakyParrot on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:37AM (#7120076)

No offense, and it bothers me in almost any use, but the phrase "doing a startup" seems especially out of its depth in this context.

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Re:How Long Have I Got Left? by dack on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:36AM (#7120187)

What's your preferred verb?

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Re:How Long Have I Got Left? by aaronem on Saturday January 25, 2014 @10:46AM (#7121073)

Why not just say "starting a business?" I've never seen what is so magically special about "startups" that they deserve to be regarded as inhabiting a separate, higher plane of their own, beyond and above ordinary entrepreneurship as the species has heretofore known it.

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Re:How Long Have I Got Left? by hrq on Saturday January 25, 2014 @11:52AM (#7121259)

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519686/steve-jobs-left-...

Another article describing a business that was started around this concept and seems to be having an important impact in medicine.

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