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Novo Nordisk must be a huge fan of the food pyramid. A company riding the wave of humans eating themselves to death.

The world is an amazing place!



They do way more than diabetes/insulin medication - they make and R&Ded recombinants, oesteoperosis medication, menopause medication, and hemophilia medication.

They're one of the Big Pharma firms like Pfizer and GSK, and the only reason Denmark (and specifically Aarhaus) is on the map for bioinformatics.

Separately, why are so many new HN commentators snarky asshats.


> They're the only reason Denmark (and specifically Aarhaus) is on the map for bioinformatics.

That's a sick burn of the Aarhus University Bioinformatics Research Centre https://birc.au.dk/ but maybe that research is only there because of that company too?


Oh I didn't mean that as a burn!!

Aarhaus has an amazing bioinformatics program thanks to the strong public-private partnership in place between Novo Nordsk, Universitet Aarhaus, and Government intervention.

Denmark's following the same game plan the US applied in the 1970s-80s to the Bay Area, San Diego, and Boston to develop the biotech industry.




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