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management resembling zombies... asking for people's blood....

aha!... now we are getting somewhere.

I agree. Building a medical device and/or diagnostics company is not a joke.

A terms needs to be coined for this behavior- perhaps "PATHology"?

NIH and NSF are often criticized for slow decisions, but a major reason for that is: experimental science is difficult and slow. Software people find this hard to comprehend, e.g. why would it take 10 years to find a new treatment? That's because you find an affected family (if it's hereditary), find appropriate controls, map the mutation, make a mouse model, use the mouse model to screen for pharmacological agents, and return to humans for testing them.

Microryza needs a vetting mechanism, at the very minimum, perhaps a dedicated science advisory board. Otherwise it runs a high risk of becoming a platform for snake oil salespeople.

Pigeons have also been shown to have atleast rudimentary capability for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem: http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~psychgso/gradlunchtime1011/lub... http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-011-0463-9

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