I woek in a uniersity lab..

I woek in a uniersity lab.. But I'm here less than a year. In some ways investing in science is a good thing. But there is a big difference between "industry" where some of our post docs go to work on for profit medicine and the academic labs. Why give money to a university? Well some pays for overhead you are going to have anyway. For all its problems, the fact that a lot data is published (pubchem and pubmed) is good for society as a whole. The for profit side doesn't do that to the same degree. The equipment side of things I think is where hopefully YC can help. Right now overpriced equipment, "robots" with software that barely works (Microscopes that use proprietary image formats....). I even saw a USB dongle for software access of the really expensive microscope. welcome to the 90s.

Posted by acomjean on Aug 3, 2015, 6:51 PM

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