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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.

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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.
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