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Well, if you want to become a doctor, at least in the US, knowing some biology will certainly help you on the first step of licensing exams... :-)

But the general point does hold that yes, a high level of math or CS training is advantageous for anyone moving into a career in the life sciences, since it appears that that's where much of the foreseeable growth (in careers and research funding) seems to be.

It's also been said by many that it's easier to learn some biology after training rigorously in CS/math, rather than the other way around. Dudley Herschbach (a Nobel-prize winning chemist) once said to me that his one piece of advice for young researchers would be simply, "Learn as much math as you can."