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Old 07-13-2009, 03:03 AM
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You are so right about all of this. The money is getting tighter and tighter. There is so much pressure to produce that people are taking short cuts and falsifying research. Getting a PhD takes just as long as getting through med school and a short residency. The money is better in medicine, but if you want to do research and don't want to see patients, med school isn't the field for you...
Ironically, I know quite a few physicians that choose NOT to see patients... LOL! Don't know how they don't see patients, though? I mean, doesn't Admissions ask ppl. if they want to see patients in the interview?

Doing hardcore research biotech is NOT easy. When I cloned my first plasmid "pre-kits", it took me nearly 2 months--and I had to MAKE competent DH5a cells--they were not sold at that time. When I cloned my second trangenic plasmid as a Post doc, it took me 1 month, with the sequencing to be injected into pluripotent blastocysts for chimeras.

These days you have Bayesian volcano plots from chips of relative transcriptomes...
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