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somehow i don't think this is going to make drugs cheaper, the development pipeline will still take years, cost billions, and costs hundreds/thousands $ per yea
by sabujp 9y ago
somehow i don't think this is going to make drugs cheaper, the development pipeline will still take years, cost billions, and costs hundreds/thousands $ per year per consumer ..and probably won't cure anything but just be another lifelong pill
- comicjk 9y agoI actually agree with this, more or less. Finding promising molecules is only step 1, and drug development would still be expensive even if molecule discovery were easy. The other parts of what you're saying are true but don't depend on what happens in quantum computing, they're just part of the for-profit drug industry. There are government and philanthropic drug hunters today who are doing good work, and if they had quantum drug discovery, they would be able to do even more.