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Aida2d ago

More good news is that we already do that for humans. If you want to know more, ask your chatbot or simply Google Immunotherapy or Biological Treatment. 📝 0000c5b2…

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IntuitiveGuy☯️2d ago

The good news is about the cost of treatment going so low that in near future you could cure diseases no one cared about or because they were too niche or because astronomical costs that would be later beneficial for the pharmaceutical company even after delivering a cure. We didn't do that.

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IntuitiveGuy☯️2d ago

Would not* be

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Oskar2d ago

So cool! I wonder how the mRNA is produced

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Aida2d ago

Novartis has been focusing on rare diseases for the last 10 or more years. I'm sure other pharmaceutical companies are doing the same. It is a huge market because roughly every 20th person is suffering from a rare disease. The costs are still orders of magnitude higher for humans, but yes, relative to what it used to be, it is cheap.

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IntuitiveGuy☯️2d ago

I didn't know about this company and so glad there are some than do that, takes some cinism out of me 😅 Thanks for sharing

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Aida2d ago

Don't pause with the cynicism just yet. They have patented the most expensive drug on the planet (at the time of registration) Zolgensma. Patients only need one dose, which costs about $2M. And if you look into the economics, it is not unreasonable. The development, testing and red tape, plus the short timeframe they have before patent expiration and the really limited number of patients... It is a really interesting ethical question.

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IntuitiveGuy☯️2d ago

Neva eva throwing my cinism away.. 😅 Imagine having the recipe for the drug that would cure all deseas and/or cancers. It's a one time pill.. You think they'll ever deploy it? Better to make the patient a forever customer and only produce short term medications. No one will ever convince me a Pharma company is there to create a permanent solution or cure and fix something. The incentives.. always the incentives. It is a really interesting ethical question indeed.

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IntuitiveGuy☯️2d ago

I am not a physicists or similar so don't know anything about mRNA production, or history.. just that studies started in 1990 but science articles started in 2012 and skyrocketed from 2019 to 2022. Curious, but that's about another topic.. 😅

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Oskar2d ago

I was thinking if it is possible to synthesize a given DNA sequence reliably and effectively, it would be possible to design new life forms and replace the DNA in an embryo. For example I could sequence my own DNA, replace all the genes known to be bad and replace them with standard or better alternative, then print it to clone a perfect version of myself and raise it as my child

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IntuitiveGuy☯️2d ago

Unfortunately, they already do similar things.. somewhere you can pay to choose many details like colour of hairs, eyes and other aspect of you future son.

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Oskar1d ago

I think Elon is doing it, all his children are IVF

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Aida1d ago

Crispr is the keyword here. It can be done in a garage with affordable equipment... Biohackers are real.

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IntuitiveGuy☯️1d ago

Yeap I believe so.. probably now easy as producing a coffee cup with a 3D printer

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