Re:Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015
by untilHellbanned on Monday March 23, 2015 @07:45PM
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I called them all projects.
Haploid genetics[1] is just one example of a technology that is doing real, far reaching stuff in human genetics (sorry, SNPs). There's numerous companies being developed from discoveries using this technology.
I love YC (and huge props to you personally for all the amazing things you've contributed, I'm very honored to be speaking with you), but in talking to many colleagues, the money involved $100K or the hype machine involved in YC just doesn't move the needle in biology. So, you're unlikely to get any real players interested.
Haploid genetics[1] is just one example of a technology that is doing real, far reaching stuff in human genetics (sorry, SNPs). There's numerous companies being developed from discoveries using this technology.
I love YC (and huge props to you personally for all the amazing things you've contributed, I'm very honored to be speaking with you), but in talking to many colleagues, the money involved $100K or the hype machine involved in YC just doesn't move the needle in biology. So, you're unlikely to get any real players interested.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21866103