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The old quest of pharmaceutical industry of one small molecule for each disease is largely over. There are perhaps different kind of strategies. For example hav
by JPLeRouzic 9y ago
The old quest of pharmaceutical industry of one small molecule for each disease is largely over. There are perhaps different kind of strategies. For example having a symbiote organism in our body. A very simple one, the baker's yeast, which is used since centuries by women to have a good look, can generate precursors of nicotinamide riboside, and mammalian cells can take up extracellular NAD+ from their surroundings [0]. It is far from being a silver bullet, but it works. There is a long record of modifying Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome, so designing a much more effective S. Cerevisiae is not an unreasonable bet. After that it is a question of customer education, about what they can expect and not expect from a product.
[0] https://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/brewers-yeast https://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/brewers-yea...