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You can't just multiply the cost for 1 person by the number of people in the population. If it's mass produced it will be a lot cheaper. e.g. if you want to pa
by mantap 6y ago
You can't just multiply the cost for 1 person by the number of people in the population. If it's mass produced it will be a lot cheaper.
e.g. if you want to pay a chemist to synthesise Aspirin in a lab for you it will be very expensive. But it costs pennies in the store.
- tsimionescu 6y agoThat's only true if you can use the same aspirin as many other people. If the specific substance needs to be adjusted to your specific tumor, it may remain extremely expensive for a long time - until it becomes a technician's job to find your specific cancer signature and synthesize the drug from it.
- abiogenesis 6y agoIn this case "aspirin" is the equipment/software/education needed to perform this treatment; not the mRNA itself.
- tsimionescu 6y agoYes, this is what I meant by it being the technician's job. But building out a new commodity specialist job out of this new technology takes a lot more time than it takes to ramp up production of a regular drug.