Let’s engage in some speculative thinking: Somebody, let’s call them Dr. X, invents a computer algorithm that cures cancer. It works by running simulations of

Let’s engage in some speculative thinking: Somebody, let’s call them Dr. X, invents a computer algorithm that cures cancer. It works by running simulations of the patient’s cells. Its output is a list of diverse interventions, for example, pairs of RNA fragments and custom delivery mechanisms for each fragment. For a given patient, the algorithm outputs between 100 and 10000 interventions, all of them different and tailored to the patient. The simulation also takes into account possible adverse effects, it’s really a cure. With the current regulatory framework, does Dr. X has any hope of his invention being used at hospitals in less than a decade, or all he can do is to use it on himself and/or make the algorithm available in the dark web?