BIO375H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bioinformatics, S&P 500 Index, Stock Market
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Do you need to include the administrative and/or marketing costs when you are planning a business model for your medical biotechnology product: yes, these costs are important to operate the company successfully. Technology trends in: drugs, devices, diagnostics. G sequencing important in field of computational and bioinformatics. If you use old sequencing methods your products won"t be up to date. Pcr is to amplify a small fraction of dna really fast. Pcr is important because when you are doing experiments using animal models you need to compare certain genes to treat a specific disease so you perform genotyping using pcr before you carry out the experiment. Rna interference inventor received nobel prize. You always need to ask yourself the following question: What are the emerging technologies: you have the prototype of your products, learn from history and apply it to the future. Value of biotech index is larger than value of s&p 500 (look at graph on slide)
