Re:Welcome to capitalism
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While I agree that there is a discrapency between the money spent in R&D versus advertising, I can only say from my limited experience so far (I work in R&D for one of the top 10 pharma), that there are genuine efforts also within the top 10 pharma companies to discover new drugs and try to meet medical needs. Have a look at http://www.sciencexpress.org/ on Thursday December 9th after 2:00 pm
Eastern Time for an example.
Cheers,
hinrich d8-)
What is more important are things like splice-variants (an active gene is copied to a mRNA which is chopped in pieces and then reassembled in different ways), post-transcriptional modifications, post-translational modifications, etc.
What a slashdot community! I did my PhD in the same lab as January is in now and I started the transcriptomics part (buss word nowadays is microarrays or DNA chips). Nowadays I work for the pharma industry and I can only support his comments. What we have been struggling with in this little beast is completely peanuts when it comes to humans. And even the investments that the pharma industry can make and makes is in my opinion only a very little fraction. Believe me, these folks want the function of the genes and they would pay you big $$ if it would be as easy as media makes you believe...
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While I agree that there is a discrapency between the money spent in R&D versus advertising, I can only say from my limited experience so far (I work in R&D for one of the top 10 pharma), that there are genuine efforts also within the top 10 pharma companies to discover new drugs and try to meet medical needs. Have a look at http://www.sciencexpress.org/ on Thursday December 9th after 2:00 pm Eastern Time for an example.
Cheers,
hinrich d8-)
What is more important are things like splice-variants (an active gene is copied to a mRNA which is chopped in pieces and then reassembled in different ways), post-transcriptional modifications, post-translational modifications, etc.
Hi January!
What a slashdot community! I did my PhD in the same lab as January is in now and I started the transcriptomics part (buss word nowadays is microarrays or DNA chips). Nowadays I work for the pharma industry and I can only support his comments. What we have been struggling with in this little beast is completely peanuts when it comes to humans. And even the investments that the pharma industry can make and makes is in my opinion only a very little fraction. Believe me, these folks want the function of the genes and they would pay you big $$ if it would be as easy as media makes you believe...
So moderate him up!!!
Cheers,
hinrich d8-)