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by srunni 12y ago
How does Synthego compare to Emerald Therapeutics and Transcriptic?
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by srunni 12y ago
> the relevant VCs are very puckered up right now when it comes to biotech/pharma. There are some great posts on the LifeSciVC blog on this topic (and I highly recommend reading all the posts on there for anyone interested in biotec
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by srunni 12y ago
Those projects are turned into companies if they have translational value: https://www.bio.org/media/press-release/report-shows-academi...
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by srunni 12y ago
For anyone interested in the production of chemicals using biological methods, a good report on the Industrialization of Biology: A Roadmap to Accelerate the Advanced Manufacturing of Chemicals was released last Friday (free PDF): http:
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by srunni 12y ago
> Very cool! I'd love to follow up with you if you'd be interested, imaging is a major problem in this disease. Sure, just shoot me an email at one of the addresses in my profile. It'll be very interesting if you can robus
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by srunni 12y ago
> Are you sequencing tumors and looking for predictive markers for future applications? For anyone interested in predictive cancer biomarkers, here are some good (open access) reviews of some of the challenges in creating them: * http:&
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by srunni 12y ago
Hey, this is an area of interest to me, as I'm building an early-stage neuro-oncology imaging startup. A few questions: 1. How do you plan to deal with mutations/regrowths? Would the tumor have to be repeatedly resected for subseq
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by srunni 12y ago
What exactly is the advantage of a home device over Theranos, which has a Vitamin D3 test ( https://www.theranos.com/test-menu/test/82306 )? Data privacy?
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by srunni 12y ago
Problem: lots of early stage biotech/medtech ventures have a hard time raising funding, for a variety of structural reasons ( http://lifescivc.com/2015/01/venture-backed-biotech-today-re... ), despite having al
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by srunni 12y ago
Something related to keep in mind when it comes to p-values is the false discovery rate: > If you run lots of phase 2 trials with different drug candidates where only a minority (lets say 10%) actually work, then with standard trial stat
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by srunni 12y ago
Here's a great post on Apple's New Market : http://stratechery.com/2015/apples-new-market/
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by srunni 12y ago
1. What bodily sample types can you start from? The CDC page gives stool as an example, but can you work from blood or mucus as well? What sorts of preparation/purification steps (if any) are required in those cases? 2. How long does i
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by srunni 12y ago
I'm a biomedical engineering graduate student at a research university. While I haven't investigated Transcriptic's pricing in depth, based on a conversation with one of their employees about collecting some basic growth curv
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by srunni 13y ago
> If you try to use LaTeX with a biomedical researcher, they will look at you very funny. I'm a biomedical researcher, and I use LaTeX. It's my preferred method of document preparation. I know many others who use LaTeX as well.
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by srunni 13y ago
> I think the only thing undemonstrated for me is how much difference their program makes. It can be difficult for people who have not experienced it to understand the sort of progress you can make in such a short period of time. I obvio
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by srunni 13y ago
> that could even be true, but some for-profit schools are notorious for manipulating statistics like that in a variety of ways. The people from my cohort are not just statistics to me. I know them personally, and all I can say is that t
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by srunni 13y ago
> 95% of our graduates have offers or are working in tech jobs now at an average salary of $91,000. http://www.appacademy.io/
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by srunni 13y ago
I also participated in App Academy, and there was no culling. The students went on to successfully find well-paying jobs in the tech industry.
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by srunni 13y ago
> Maybe Japanese writing was more culturally ingrained by the Middle ages in Japan compared to Korea to make such a sweeping reform unthinkable I don't think this is true. By "Middle Ages", I'm guessing you're re
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by srunni 13y ago
> The way I've heard it explained is that Japanese has too many homonyms and simply writing things by sound would be too ambiguous. I explored this concept in this Reddit comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHist
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by srunni 13y ago
My age was less of an issue at the grade school level, where students of multiple grade levels were in the same classroom (because it was a small school). However, things were not so easy socially once I moved to a public middle school, whe
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by srunni 13y ago
This is very interesting to me because I had the opposite experience - my parents had me start school early. I went to a private grade school that allowed me to start kindergarten while still 4, a few weeks before my 5th birthday (I was bor
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by srunni 14y ago
> If you have a random data analysis problem that would take your computer three weeks, why not just pay $10 and get it done in two hours (plus a few hours of debugging)? I'm facing this very problem myself right now with some GPU-bound
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by srunni 14y ago
How hard is it for foreigners (American, in my case) who aren't already in Japan to get into the Tokyo startup scene? I'm guessing you'd need a work visa, something startups would have a tough time providing. I've studied Japanese and studi
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by srunni 14y ago
This seems quite nice. It has a solid UI and is certainly heading in the right direction, but lots of work remains to be done. For example, flight booking needs to be integrated, and a smartphone app isn't available. They say the service is
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by srunni 14y ago
No, travel agents fit into the "package tour" group that I mentioned above. In my experience, travel agents have provided a one-size-fits-all experience - stale and boring.
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by srunni 14y ago
> One awesome thing this would allow is for people to create and curate special-interest travel guides. I think there's HUGE potential in an online service that takes care of all the aspects of a trip. Right now you have the choice of e
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by srunni 14y ago
How useful would this be to a non-software engineer with significant self-taught programming experience? I have programmed (mainly Python & Java, no Ruby/Rails and little web experience) for several years within the context of biomedica
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by srunni 14y ago
Wow, I can't believe that a student had the gall to talk like that to his sponsor. The admissions process usually weeds out those types of students, but a few bad apples can always get through. The annual WUSTL Engineering Scholarship Dinne
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by srunni 14y ago
> Biomed is so popular because so many students go to WashU for undergrad to be premed and then switch to other majors later--biomed being the best premed choice of the engineering disciplines. Undoubtedly, many students who are initial

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