Dan MacArthur has the details. What, no bailout from the government of Iceland?
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Generally, it takes the threat of imminent death or disaster to get earth science onto the front page of newspapers, and today is no exception. A massive plume of ash emanating from the tongue-twisting Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland has thrown a wrench into much of Europe's travel plans; the…
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Dan MacArthur at Genetic Future has the details. Some of the stuff coming out of genomics reminds me a lot of what you see with social science; lots of sexy studies which turn out not to be as significant upon later analysis. Perhaps hypotheses are overrated?
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that is a good question... at the last crisis some influence was brought upon lenders to keep decode going, but they need cash and a revenue model - they're sitting on some interesting results, I hear, but don't have any resources to go clinical
buyout might be their best bet, but their most valuable asset has some restrictions on it
Heh... my inside sources tell me the government of Iceland can barely afford to keep the country running, and the populace is going back to its traditional foods (boiled sheep's head and rotten shark, yum!), so I'm guessing deCODE is looking elsewhere for the bailout.
However, Steinn is spot on: who will buy a product with such hefty ethical and political strings attached?