Nice, finally we found a cure for that shit
I wonder how pharma is gonna monetize it, or if its open source
Not to dampen your enthusiasm, but they only showed it works in vitro, so basically in a petri dish. Which means there’s still animal tests and human tests coming (if the animal tests are promising) and that’s were most of the cures fail. Because a mouse is wildly different from a Petri dish and a human is wildly different from a mouse.
the researchers have shown for the first time that mRNA can be delivered into the cells where HIV is hiding, by encasing it in a tiny, specially formulated fat bubble. The mRNA then instructs the cells to reveal the virus.
Am I the only one kinda scared about mRNA treatments?
I have always wondered how a zombie apocalypse could come about, like, from a biochemical perspective, and mRNA seems to me a very good candidate.
Obviously it has a massive potential to cure otherwise incurable diseases, like genetic defects…
Edit: Sheesh thanks for the downvotes, teaches me to ask a question on Lemmy.
No, the scientist who just discovered this is going to die horribly and somehow his notes will all disappear. No one will know how it happened, and they will investigate for 6 months, or until everyone forgets, and find no further leads.
Duck off (lol, good autocorrect for once)
This is a sub for positive news, so say something like „Sure it will be OSS“ or something
Per the article the technology can be applied to cancer too a bigger “buisness”.
It can be advantageous for a buisness to develop these since it would basically undercut all other providers. If you make a drug that can totally cure a disease while your competitors only make on that treat it you’ve all but garunteed you will control the entire market.
I hate thinking of public health in these terms, but there are incentives to these advancements for companies
