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[–] somethingsnappy 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, and it's still bullshit, we also look at number of patients per week per cost. Crispr for example, could be used for a huge variety of issues, but curing 100 people globally for $100M in clinical development is just not going to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Crispr is the exception:

  1. it’s massively expensive
  2. it can cure multiple illnesses and perform loads of other functions

Most proposals for cures are a fairly simple (and cheap) therapeutic target that will only work for one condition or even just a subset of cases within that condition.