Quarter Life Crisis

Seems like there is going to be quite a bit of IP infringement in this little variation of the nanoparticle tumor therapy. This company, Nanospectra, started this type of thing.

People have been throwing out the ideas of coating the particles with compounds that help target and kill drugs while preventing autoimmune response for a while now. Even my group at school has proposed this thing a few times already haha. I mean its a good idea and seems to work really well in rats, but the problem is still that these particles get stuck in all parts of your body over time and we don’t know how they’ll react long term.

Research isn’t my thing, but this just goes to show you that a lot of scientific research is all about taking something thats already out there and changing it a little bit.

“Argonauts, Saxenian’s mythic term for global commuters employed in the high tech sector, are not the ominous invaders American economic isolationists fear-stealing jobs and ideas from Americans and spiriting them abroad. Rather, Saxenian argues, such global entrepreneurs have created domestic and foreign jobs and reduced the cost of technology for businesses and consumers. Saxenian is at her best when describing the relatively short history of the international entrepreneur-commuter: the Argonauts, though equipped with Ph.D.s from American universities, hit ethnicity-based glass ceilings in the States and chose entrepreneurship over floundering in middle-management. Bright, young, foreign-born entrepreneurs formed technology companies (with the help of western venture capital and management theory) in their home countries and succeeded where traditional development initiatives failed. However, when Saxenian projects the implications of Argonaut activity or their future, she sounds prematurely optimistic; some readers may have a hard time envisioning, as Saxenian does, widespread future interglobal cooperation aimed at solving humanity’s problems.”

From: Amazon

Well, if all goes according to plan, my career will probably be something like this. Train in the US and take my skills back to the mother land. Going to read this book. I will let you know if its worth the read.