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Ezra Klein on ARPA-H

…Also (Klein notes this) patents are an inefficient way of creating incentives for discovery — the inventor gains which is good through an artificial monopoly which is socially costly. Another…

Advances in Parkinson’s research

…genetic risk. It looks like there are now new tests–one involving cerebrospinal fluid and one scratch-and-sniff test–that predict Parkinson’s years before the pathological symptoms appear. This will impact drug discovery