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Insight
Automation allows lean biotech startups to match big pharma research output
“You can do, ah, the same amount of work if you just make your scientists that many times more efficient than a company, than those who work at a big pharma company or at one of these other biotech firms.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 2:43 DJ Kleinbaum
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Emerald Cloud Lab is virtualization like AWS, not outsourcing like CROs
“Be, it's not outsourcing, it's virtualization, so we are much more similar to Taiwan Semiconductor or Amazon Web Services than we are to any of these CROs”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 8:04 DJ Kleinbaum
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Untracked variables, not fraud, drive the scientific reproducibility crisis
“Maybe a tiny fraction of that might be malfeasance, but most scientists are trying really hard to, like, convey the results they have gotten and how they got them. The problem is, is that when you're doing that, when you're doing everything by hand, and you're…”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 9:38 DJ Kleinbaum
Insight
Cloud lab turnaround must match Amazon Prime speed to be useful
“This needs to be like the Amazon Prime of life sciences research, because if there's too long between when you submit your experiment and when we do it, it's not going to be useful to you”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 15:11 DJ Kleinbaum
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