• somethingsnappy@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.

    • Neurologist@mander.xyz
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      5 days 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.