but the costs are absolutely ridiculous. $120,000 for four rounds... As the article details, it took 15 years to bring this drug to market, and the process has

but the costs are absolutely ridiculous. $120,000 for four rounds... As the article details, it took 15 years to bring this drug to market, and the process has been and continues to be very research intensive. That money also pays for failures, it's not cheap to produce, and it's sold in small quantities for a currently small number of patients. Yeah, it's not wonderful, but every time I hear that sort of thing, I also hear the sentiments that are (not so?) slowly shutting down new drug development. You'll see this play out rather starkly as bacteria become continue to become more resistant to the usual antibiotics.