Foldit Player May Have Created a Useful Protein

An anonymous reader writes "The organizers of the game Foldit, where you fold proteins for scientific research, announced that a user has found a protein that may be able to bind influenza viruses. Researchers plan to test the protein in a lab over the next few weeks to see if it might be medically useful."

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confusion about problems and symptoms

[Anonymous Coward]

You're confused about the difference between problems and symptoms. Spending more money on ads then R&D is a symptom of 2 things ... first, the VC firms do much of the spending on R the major pharmaceutical companies don't get into that game until the research is done and well into the development when the medicine or device is low risk. The second is that the ads are what are required to turn a drug into a profit center. Note that money happens after the R&D is complete, so it's a completely different pool of money.

In short, you're a typical ignorant asstard. I'll bet you assume that Obamacare will make this better, by guaranteeing that there is no profit to be made after the R&D is done.