• frezik@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    Benefit society, or go to support a pharmaceutical company that will in some way benefit society in exchange for making a few people rich?

    No ethical consumption working conditions under capitalism.

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      4 months ago

      Bioinformatics isn’t used only for medical research or within big companies. Sub-topics like metagenomics, that are helpful in many areas of research, require high level of technical knowledge, that the life science people don’t have.