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[hellouser]

Exactly, get the money to the students with talent and passion and they can use it efficiently. Throwing money at big bussiness is naive at best.

It would be great if the universitys also allowed any intellectual property to enter the public domain with no restrictions. This would mean nobody could profit or squirrel potential treatments away in their vaults. It would be truly a service for the people and their noggins.

Get Silicon Valley to work on this. They'd have a cure in months. Those guys actually solve problems.... fast. The rest of these doctors don't seem to have a clue about how to find solutions.

[crafter]

Get Silicon Valley to work on this. They'd have a cure in months. Those guys actually solve problems.... fast. The rest of these doctors don't seem to have a clue about how to find solutions.

steve Jobs would have had a cure out every 2 years if Apple did hair loss.

[UK_]

Get Silicon Valley to work on this. They'd have a cure in months. Those guys actually solve problems.... fast. The rest of these doctors don't seem to have a clue about how to find solutions.

biology > tech in complexity.

Yeah guys, I think we really need to understand that comparing the complexity of human biology to technology is just insane, human biology walks in a whole different dimension of hyper-complexity in comparison.

[greatjob!]

biology > tech in complexity.

Yeah guys, I think we really need to understand that comparing the complexity of human biology to technology is just insane, human biology walks in a whole different dimension of hyper-complexity in comparison.

true story

[hellouser]

biology > tech in complexity.

Yeah guys, I think we really need to understand that comparing the complexity of human biology to technology is just insane, human biology walks in a whole different dimension of hyper-complexity in comparison.

Yeah, I understand bio is a different beast, but I just don't see the need for so many excuses to not have a treatment, let alone cure after so many years and so many guys involved. I just don't get the feeling these guys are problem solvers but rather problem researchers... I mean, seriously, has the bio world ever found a full out cure for anything? No.

[walrus]

I mean, seriously, has the bio world ever found a full out cure for anything? No.

How many vaccinations do you have?

[hellouser]

How many vaccinations do you have?

Thats preventative rather than reversing the problem.

[HairBane]

Thats preventative rather than reversing the problem.

Vaccines aren't necessarily preventative, they can be therapeutic also. Plenty of diseases have been cured.

Baldness is a difficult one probably because it will most likely require genetic or stem cell based therapies to combat it effectively, and those aren't mature yet. But it will come. Hellouser's right in a sense, medicine as a field will change drastically once it becomes an information science.

[hellouser]

Vaccines aren't necessarily preventative, they can be therapeutic also. Plenty of diseases have been cured.

Baldness is a difficult one probably because it will most likely require genetic or stem cell based therapies to combat it effectively, and those aren't mature yet. But it will come. Hellouser's right in a sense, medicine as a field will change drastically once it becomes an information science.

I don't doubt that part of the reason why there aren't any legitimate cures is because of consumerism. You offer the public a stupid iPhone and the sheep go crazy. You tell them they can buy something health related and nobody bats an eye. People have their priorities so effing backwards. But you have to admit how ridiculously fast paced the tech world is moving forward.... only a few+ years ago were we all still stuck on crappy HD drives, now SSD drives are basically the norm: silent, shock proof, no heat, little to no battery usage and ridiculously faster than an HD drive. Or how about screens? In about a decade we've got from CRTs to small displays on mobile devices that are reaching nearly 500ppi... about DOUBLE of what the human eye can see... and thats on a MOBILE device.

The health world? Still trudging along at a snails pace... and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.

[greatjob!]

I don't doubt that part of the reason why there aren't any legitimate cures is because of consumerism. You offer the public a stupid iPhone and the sheep go crazy. You tell them they can buy something health related and nobody bats an eye. People have their priorities so effing backwards. But you have to admit how ridiculously fast paced the tech world is moving forward.... only a few+ years ago were we all still stuck on crappy HD drives, now SSD drives are basically the norm: silent, shock proof, no heat, little to no battery usage and ridiculously faster than an HD drive. Or how about screens? In about a decade we've got from CRTs to small displays on mobile devices that are reaching nearly 500ppi... about DOUBLE of what the human eye can see... and thats on a MOBILE device.

The health world? Still trudging along at a snails pace... and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.

Yeah but when you develop a new technology the system doesn't evolve and adapt to make that technology useless. When you develop a new technology it works for everyone, not just a small population of consumers. Developing solutions for a living system is infinitely more complex than developing solutions for predictable dead objects. The tech field and the medical field are not very comparable.

[walrus]

"Google spin-off Calico to search for answers to ageing"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24158924

[hellouser]

"Google spin-off Calico to search for answers to ageing"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24158924

I've got more faith in them than the other biotechs. Relatively speaking, I see the biotechs as a bunch of incompetent losers. I just can't understand how hair loss hasn't been cured yet... there's obviously a massive demand for it, and pretty much everyone (not us here on the forums) has been content with snake oil shampoos and finasteride. Once some company releases a product that actually works, the other players are going be running around in circles, dumbfounded at their lack of initiative... just like Blackberry, resting on its laurels for 7 years and doing jack shit while the iPhone completely obliterated their dominance in the smartphone world. When that time comes to the hair loss industry, I will throw a parade right in the face of todays hair loss crooks.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

I've got more faith in them than the other biotechs. Relatively speaking, I see the biotechs as a bunch of incompetent losers. I just can't understand how hair loss hasn't been cured yet... there's obviously a massive demand for it, and pretty much everyone (not us here on the forums) has been content with snake oil shampoos and finasteride. Once some company releases a product that actually works, the other players are going be running around in circles, dumbfounded at their lack of initiative... just like Blackberry, resting on its laurels for 7 years and doing jack shit while the iPhone completely obliterated their dominance in the smartphone world. When that time comes to the hair loss industry, I will throw a parade right in the face of todays hair loss crooks.

I've been saying on here for a long time that the biotechs aren't interested in cures because there is no money in cures, but instead in treatments that need to be taken for the rest of a person's life. And it's worse than ever today with these greedy pharmaceutical companies. I see ads on TV all the time advertising some pill or remedy that of course needs to be taken every day for the rest of a person's life. And I love that last sentence of yours too.

[TO YOUNG TO RETIRE]

NASDAQ:GOOG goes uphill.....i guess it must be the nexus leak and the google lifespam reasearch thing...

[walrus]

I've been saying on here for a long time that the biotechs aren't interested in cures because there is no money in cures, but instead in treatments that need to be taken for the rest of a person's life. And it's worse than ever today with these greedy pharmaceutical companies. I see ads on TV all the time advertising some pill or remedy that of course needs to be taken every day for the rest of a person's life. And I love that last sentence of yours too.

There is no global health conspiracy. Do people take antibiotics for life, or only until an infection is cleared? - The later. What you are talking about are genetic conditions. Targeting the products of gene expression with a drug is much more feasible today than changing a patients DNA. It's not a hidden agenda against anyone.