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> In Phase I, the team will insert an optimized DNA sequence for insulin into E. coli bacteria That is an unfortunate naming choice. Phase + Roman numbers have

by pygy_ 11y ago

> In Phase I, the team will insert an optimized DNA sequence for insulin into E. coli bacteria That is an unfortunate naming choice. Phase + Roman numbers have a well defined meaning in drugs development (clinical trial phases). I saw you refer to phases elsewhere in the comments and misunderstood what you meant.

refurb 11y ago
I was going to say the exact same thing. A few thousand for phase II made my jaw drop. Try a few tens of millions!
snewk 11y ago
good point. The project is referring to its own phase 1, 2, etc independently from "FDA phase x clinical trials"
- pygy_ 11y ago
  From my computer's thesaurus: 1. the final phase of the election campaign: stage, period, chapter, episode, part, step, point, time, juncture. Pick one, and run with it :-)
  - snewk 11y ago
    thanks, pygy. we changed our terminology to 'stage'