does it work?
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This is the third report I have heared of a mRNA nanotechnology based gene editing thrrepy come up o in the past few days. Did some lab just get some new grants or what? Did like a big journal just put out a quartlery issue?
This would be super cool but I look forward to reading about how a pharma company somehow got ahold of all of the research docs and buried them twenty years from now.
For the low, low price of $999,999.99.
They'll monetize it so fast and hard.
I’m optimistic on that front. First, this is public-sector research, and second, the approach seems inexpensive and hard to copyright. A lipid nanoparticle is not that special; there are multiple ways to formulate them (some are native to your body), and already there are (I assume) multiple competing firms that can produce them cheaply in large quantities, thanks in part to the pandemic. As for the mRNA sequence packaged inside the nanoparticles, I think if you publish that sequence in a research paper it’s considered factual information that cannot be copyrighted? And furthermore, there are probably multiple valid sequences that would work, maybe even a large number of them. I can’t imagine anyone getting a monopoly on something like this, especially with the enormous demand for it.
*I’m not an expert though, and it just occurred to me that, by the same logic, insulin should be cheap, but iirc it costs hundreds a month in the US
The current study tests are actually priced around 2 mill so yk aim higher
"It """cost"""* us 10 trillion dollars to develop and 100000 per dose*. Sorry peasant, just reality works!"
*Subsidized by the government and profits of other patents they "obtained". *100000 per dose in America, $1 per dose everywhere else.
(Its so cool that my prescriptions would be 1k+ for the 4th most common, ~20 year old anti-depressant, and what is (basically) literal meth.)
Elias Sayour has spent a decade working to harness the power of mRNA science in order to effectively treat cancer.
Welp, when he gets deported I hope he puts his talents to good use somewhere he'll be better appreciated. Like China.
Yes, we are in fact stupid enough to deport valuable talent.
But at what cost?
At the cost of US cancer patients no longer traveling to Cuba for a cancer vaccine, since they did it first a decade ago
Florida finally doing something good for once?