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2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability

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Challenges of Accessing and Affording Programmable Medicines

The market now has programmable medicines known as 'drugs' that can target specific diseases and change genetic makeup./nThese drugs are expensive and complex to administer./nThe current healthcare system is not equipped to handle the adoption and access to these drugs./nThere is a need to solve the problem of integrating these drugs into the healthcare system sooner rather than later./nCell and gene therapies can cost millions of dollars upfront, which can potentially bankrupt the healthcare system.

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