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by JunkDNA 13y ago
The "real" costs of making ordinary drugs are small in terms of manufacturing. It is very inexpensive to synthesize the chemicals that make up most drugs. You're paying for the R&D of the drug as well as all the ones that
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The reason this works is that there happens to be a protein on the outside of leukemias that allows you to uniquely target only the cancerous cells, leaving everything else alone. Provided a similar molecular signature could be found in oth
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Not sure that this is true. The Supreme Court in recent years has smacked down several regulations on free speech grounds in surprising ways. Campaign finance reform (aka "Citizens United") isn't a popular one on the left, bu
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>Enter Fred George (of Programmer Anarchy fame). Fred came on board as Chief Architect, and focused on supporting the organisational move from traditional enterprise technology team to a nimbler, highly skilled organisation built around
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If you truly don't eat any carbs at all (something that is extremely hard to do) I am pretty sure you end up in ketosis. That's not exactly a healthy state of affairs despite the fact that you can live that way. Practically speaki
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SolveBio is exactly what I've been looking for for some other work I've been doing. We're using Harvest to build a variant filtering and reporting tool for clinical applications. We want to integrate external resources but we
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Those iPhone apps for cat picture sharing are valued at over a billion dollars by the marketplace, so it's kind of hard for developers to ignore. Truthfully, most of us in the field of biomedical informatics would have much more lucrat
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You can use Amazon Glacier with the "Almost Absolute Zero" flag for long term storage.
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They do this to a certain extent, but the problem here is that the "R" part of "R&D" is not really at issue. While there's a lot of focus in the popular press on "finding" new antibiotics, that part ca
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You're right that it's about profits when pharma is involved, but you are wrong about the reason (otherwise vaccines would not exist). I can tell you from firsthand experience that the length of time someone is on a drug makes alm
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I haven't done any gaming with it, but web video played in the browser works the same as locally. I haven't tried any full screen stuff like movies though. For regular application usage there is no perceptible lag for things like
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There is so much marketing around Watson and so little data . I feel like a broken record every time this comes up, but where are the peer-reviewed research papers with data showing Watson's superior utility in real world settings lik
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Having worked in the pharma industry, I can attest that there is no shortage of extreme risk aversion at the FDA. That being said, we just had an article here where someone claimed to have created a spreadsheet in pure javascript for some a
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I second this. The protocol is incredibly fast, even over a cellular connection when zipping down the rail line on Amtrak. On a LAN I can use VMware PCoIP on an Apple Cinema Display and there is zero lag (hard to test the Cinema Display on
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I'm wondering what customers they are targeting this to? A lot of big companies who would care about data on laptops probably have an equally kneejerk reaction to data in the cloud. You could argue it's for small companies. But th
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I have been working on an ETL domain specific language using Scala for a while now (DataExpress for the curious: http://dataexpress.research.chop.edu ) trying to address similar problems to this. Namely, when doing ETL you don&#x
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I remember learning firsthand just how inaccurate journalism can be. My family ran a small business (a small factory) that tragically caught fire early one morning and burned to the ground. The newspaper account was ridiculous. It described
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FAA to Allow Airlines to Expand Use of Personal Electronics(faa.gov)
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Yes, that's it. If I recall there were multiple pieces in that issue about various aspects, but this was the primary one.
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About 10 years ago the journal "Science" ran a cover story called "The soft Science of Dietary fat". If you have access to back issues through a library (sadly it's paywalled), go pull it and read it. Your mind will
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There is a fair share of ignorance of stats to go around, but in the biological sciences and in medicine, getting a big enough n is often practically difficult or impossible. Sometimes it's funding for the study that is to blame. But b
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As far as I'm aware there have been zero peer reviewed publications showing Watson actually doing something in medicine. When a doctor thinks he or she has a better approach than what is being done, they use the scientific method to fi
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I've seen them smack dab in the middle of boston.com "The Big Picture". You basically can't look at more than a few of the photos without answering a google survey question. For me, looking at this page now asks me who m
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As a big proponent of open source, I would agree your statements completely. There is little a community could do with this that can't be done with existing tools already. Furthermore, this succeeds primarily because of the author&#x27
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I always like stuff like this because you see that these people who knock it out of the park apparently effortlessly actually struggle like all the rest of us normal humans behind the scenes. They couldn't figure out how to make a to
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I complety fell for one of those Israeli cosmetics things in the mall in my early 20's. My dad was in sales so I am accustomed to all the techniques of persuasion. But for some reason that day I bought $20 or so worth of skin care prod
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So does the guy who answered this get a "Aiding Criminal Masterminds" badge? In all seriousness, I know that this feeling is irrational, but I would feel pretty terrible if I helped someone on SO and then came to find out they wer
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If you've never read it, this is as good a time as any to pick up a copy of The Hunt for Red October. I had never actually read it until three or four years ago (though I had seen the movie as a teen). It has held up remarkably well.
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>And to act like a guide on how to scale MongoDB to store 100GB is a problem is also ridiculous While I agree with a good bit of what you say. I take issue with this. 100GB is not a lot of data by any modern definition. That this guide e
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I note for those who don't get to the bottom, there are comments there that suggest the author of the post you linked is incorrect. I'm not qualified to know who is right.

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