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[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] GarlicToast@programming.dev 3 points 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.