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> More and more promising treatments are accumulating in the pipeline, fueled by an explosion of new therapeutic modalities, ranging from mRNA to better peptide
by panzagl 7mo ago
> More and more promising treatments are accumulating in the pipeline, fueled by an explosion of new therapeutic modalities, ranging from mRNA to better peptides and more recently, by AI.
If the pipeline is backed up you put a bigger pipe in place, not get rid of it and hope some of the resulting flood goes where you want.
- junofan 7mo agoIt’s less of a pipeline and more like a rocket engine. The exhaust gas (clinical data) spins the pump. We’ve put restrictors on that flow, and it’s taking a lot of fuel to get off the ground.
- panzagl 7mo agoRockets with unrestricted flow are called bombs.
- terminalshort 7mo agoThey're called solid fuel rockets
- estearum 7mo ago> The exhaust gas (clinical data) spins the pump Not really. Real-world data is used very heavily already and is far less helpful than we'd hope for in drug development. It's much more like a pipeline.