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I totally agree with this, as I (unfortunately) have a lot of experience in taking pharmaceuticals and having adverse side effect. But while academia is coming
by GordonS 7y ago
I totally agree with this, as I (unfortunately) have a lot of experience in taking pharmaceuticals and having adverse side effect.
But while academia is coming to the conclusion that genetics (and often enzyne activity as a direct result) play a huge role in drug response, it will be decades before we see any real change as a result.
I can understand to some degree, but sometimes the pace of change in medicine is truely maddening.
- tachyonbeam 7y agoI think the huge amount of regulation and barriers in the field are largely to blame. You can't really have pharma startups the way you can have tech startups. You couldn't just start a company tomorrow and start incrementally prototyping a drug by testing it on people (or even animals) with lots of genetic testing... Even though I'm sure a lot of people (eg: cancer patients) would gladly volunteer.