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About developing new pharmaceuticals: apparently something that works well with mice might or might not eventually work with humans, and it's a slow and costly
by jnurmine 7y ago
About developing new pharmaceuticals: apparently something that works well with mice might or might not eventually work with humans, and it's a slow and costly process to notice this only at the end of phase III clinical trials.
If someone comes up with a way to do hyper-accurate and fast in silico testing of human physiology, the duration of the clinical research would be dramatically shortened from the 10-15 years it takes nowadays.
If this ever happens, the valuation of biotech companies creating pharmaceuticals will explode onto absurd levels (like internet companies did during the "IT bubble").
- irq11 7y agoThere is zero chance of this occurring in our lifetime. We don’t understand even a tiny fraction of human biology, and every new drug - by definition - is exploring a new part of chemical space that we’ve never sampled before. This is the fundamental hard, hard thing about biology and medicine that silicon valley thought-leaders don’t understand. There is nothing about drug discovery that is deterministic.