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Re:Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:37PM (#8853809)
How much of that goes to the actual researchers vs the school?
Re:Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:22PM (#8853725)
Thanks for the informative response! Do you know how expensive clinical trials would be for this kind of drug?
Re:Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:53PM (#8853544)
The nytimes article mentions:

"The research was paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the German government (some co-authors work at the University of Bonn). Northeastern University holds a patent on the method of producing drugs and licensed the patent to a private company, NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, Mass., which owns the rights to any compounds produced. Dr. Lewis is a paid consultant to the company."

If the research was paid for by the National Institutes of Health, why is the patent privately owned? This does not seem fair to taxpayers.

Re:The Secret to the Uber Economy Is Wealth Inequality on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @12:41PM (#8763241)
Income equality helps businesses and the economy grow. Consider the extreme case of inequality where all the wealth is concentrated in just a few people... there'd be no market for Uber.
Re:The Secret to the Uber Economy Is Wealth Inequality on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @12:21PM (#8763133)
This is bogus. Imagine how much more valuable Uber would be if 100% of people could afford to ride them on a regular basis.
Re:Burn Baby Burn on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @09:21AM (#8324323)
Where's the data?
Yes, or maybe something like a plasma actuator.
Re:Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @06:09PM (#8077217)
And 3 nurses died from the same treatment center a few days ago.
Re:YC Portfolio Stats on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @04:13PM (#8044262)
Crunchbase isn't the most reliable, so I was wondering if they surveyed their companies, etc.
Re:What Problems to Solve on Monday July 14, 2014 @10:52AM (#8031178)
I hear this a lot, but I'm not convinced that most successful companies pivot. Is there any data to back this up?
How did you (yummyfajitas too) find these funds? I'd love to find a small algo shop but don't know where to start looking.