The Cost of Cell Therapy

Underdog team have engineered their cyclodextrin to preferentially bind only 7 cuticlecilestrol, which should greatly reduce its toxicity and allow them to dose at levels where you can get rid of a significant amount. If you think you're going to treat 100,000 people with something that costs $10,000? They don't want to hear that. So you really need to take that sort of therapy and apply it to the highest risk patient groups first. And that needs to be your plan. Now later on, in the science world of the 2030s, once we've had 20 years of having a cell therapy that everybody wants to use, maybe we can crush it

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