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by skosuri 12y ago
Depends on the school. The general rule of thumb is about 1/3rd to the inventors themselves, 1/3rd to the department, 1/3 to the school.
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by skosuri 12y ago
$100M-500M gets thrown around [1] but it's hard to find good data. This might seem not too high, but many drugs fail, and often fail at the most costly step (phase III). So you have to be sure to factor that failure rate in. [1] http
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by skosuri 12y ago
This is not only allowed, it's encouraged by legislation called the Bayh-Dole Act. The general thought is that there would be no incentive for anyone to do clinical trials on the drug, which can get quite expensive, if they don't
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by skosuri 12y ago
"... cultured rat neurons are placed on an array of electrodes and trained to power a robot..." Wait what. That's sounds amazing. Are they still working on this?
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by skosuri 12y ago
A TA is a graduate student who is also pursuing a doctoral degree. I don't think it's fair to compare this to a job in a private industry.
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by skosuri 12y ago
Unfortunately, your facts are wrong. This retirement mess came about because both the state and UC stopped contributing to the UC Retirement fund in 1990. That went on for 20 years, until UC restarted it in 2010; the state is still not con
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by skosuri 12y ago
This sounds nothing like the experience of where I am at (UCLA) in terms of grant pressure. I don't think the UK has tenured positions though.
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by skosuri 12y ago
To be more accurate, the UC pay increases were for the 3 lowest paid chancellors 20%, and one other 5%. All three were the lowest paid chancellors amongst the 100 or so AARU universities. UC system schools are still on the lower end of the
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by skosuri 12y ago
You can also try /r/scholar; you usually get responses within a day or so [1]. [1]. http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar
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by skosuri 12y ago
Not all IP; just most copyrighted images that NASA themselves produce. Patents by NASA are licensed to companies [1]. [1] http://technology.nasa.gov/patents edit: Most of the biggest high profile publications from NASA get
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by skosuri 12y ago
I've looked into these numbers and it's really hard to parse what revenues and expenses are coming from their journal publishing. The publishers listed are also have huge amounts of revenue in textbooks and other book markets (to
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by skosuri 12y ago
It's mostly the high editorial costs. Especially for the academic glamour journals, they are only accepting a small percentage of the manuscripts that come their way. It's a little silly though; they still charge hundreds to thous
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by skosuri 12y ago
This has already been done many times with regular pdfs [1-3]. There are mostly hosted illegally in places like Russia. I'm sure you can find more on TPB or similar. [1] http://sci-hub.org/ [2] http://book
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by skosuri 12y ago
I've been really impressed with Nautilus. Awesome to have a new magazine that seriously covers scientific topics, and do it quite well and with style.
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by skosuri 12y ago
> the majority of useful early stage research is funded by philanthropy Really? Is there a source for this?
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by skosuri 12y ago
This is such a tragedy. I think a couple of comments should be made. First, we truly lost a fantastic member of the stem cell community. His lab produced some of the most ambitious and amazing directed differentiation of stem cells into ne
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by skosuri 12y ago
You are right. I think we would all appreciate making more stuff that we do automatable and outsourceable. I guess where I was trying to go with the comment is that it would be nice if there were similar tools for design and analysis. Oh a
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by skosuri 12y ago
In our lab today we are consistently dealing with the opposite problem. The experiments themselves are easy in comparison with the design and analysis.
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by skosuri 12y ago
This is a huge donation for the Broad and probably equals all their previous fundraising. I think a lot will ask if it's too much to one institute or too little to solve the problem, but overall I'm very excited. Biology is changi
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by skosuri 12y ago
Considering the administration's public statements in the past, this would have been a pretty surprising pick for them. How sure were people about the nominee. Also, anyone know anything about the acting director from google?
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by skosuri 12y ago
The government is the dominant funder of stem cell research post-Bush (In addition to state funding of stem cell research like inNY, TX, & CA). For example, see http://stemcells.nih.gov/Pages/Default.aspx I think
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by skosuri 12y ago
Boston
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by skosuri 12y ago
I've seen the other way around just as much if not more so. People calling taxis and then not waiting for the one they called, with a driver just hanging around. My experience in Boston was quite good over many hundreds of taxis ride
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by skosuri 12y ago
I don't use Uber, but is it generally cheaper than taxis?
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by skosuri 12y ago
Well taxi's are on the road a lot more than normal cars. There are separate rules for commercial vehicles for instance. Also, since most of the driver's are freelancers (and not Uber employees), I don't see how OSHA rules app
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by skosuri 12y ago
That just means that there is room for a company to develop and create better dispatch software for the taxi industry, not that all regulation should be decimated to make dispatching better.
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by skosuri 12y ago
Doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, etc as well?
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by skosuri 12y ago
Well it's one against one. I didn't own a car for the last 12 years. I've had an overall great experience with taxis over many hundreds of taxi rides. So we can compare our usage, but your anecdote is just that.
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by skosuri 12y ago
Am I the only person that thinks government regulation is a reasonable thing for the taxi industry? Regulations on work hours, car safety, tougher environmental standards, driver training, requiring pickup if called, etc all seem reasonable
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by skosuri 12y ago
I've been in and out of half a dozen labs around the country (and have one of my own now) and this is the craziest story I've ever heard of. It's hard to imagine how one creates a culture like that in the lab; sounds awful.

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