On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Reason <reason@fightaging.org> wrote:
Unlike recreational drugs, it is clear that the costs and the benefits for
manufacturing your own medicine are not yet at the point of spurring people
to action at the level of small chemistry or biotech laboratories. The
knowledge is still too specialized, the complexity of the work too great,
and the benefits too narrow. This will change, however, and think it will
largely change on the benefit side of the equation. For example, consider
I am not so sure it will change. Individuals with rare blood diseases spend a fortune to get their medication, and yet I haven't heard of them popping their head around these parts (ever). By comparison, replicating an antibody production setup is pretty easy compared to the other projects that are sometimes discussed. So how expensive does it have to be before people wonder if they can just solve their own problems without spending $10,000/mo on a drug?
Is it supposed to happen at $20,000/mo for a drug? Because those already exist too, and they aren't here either... even though it would be relatively simple (and much cheaper) to snatch up some cheapo postdocs or diybio enthusiasts to implement those projects.
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