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Re:Y Combinator Bets on Biotech by enscr on Thursday April 24, 2014 @03:04AM (#7638853)
Interesting move. I've often heard people complain that the best minds are writing HTML/Javascript when they should be solving real problems (e.g. medicine/health)... obviously because Tech pays big money. I'm not undermining the utility of FB & Whatsapp but I feel a larger percentage of the World population needs better healthcare & medicine. I'd be happy to see the balance of crazy paying startups shift towards life sciences. What could be a better incentive to innovate than this. Have a BS/MS/PhD? Good, go hack the body & decode it. 'x' years from now, there'll be open plugins to debug & fine tune your body.
Re:Y Combinator Bets on Biotech by operon on Thursday April 24, 2014 @03:22PM (#7642333)
There are also great ("best") minds solving real problems in medicine/health.

They are just a trillion times harder/expensive than writing an app.

Re:Y Combinator Bets on Biotech by enscr on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:00PM (#7644520)
The barrier to entry for writing an app has been lowered because of money+innovation in tech. Hoping for same in medicine. Human simulators would make it so easy to test medicines.