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by crocowhile 5511 days ago
The DCA is a promising drug and there's many people working on it, on many kind of tumors.

Be aware that this "it's unpatentable" thing is bullshit. You don't patent a drug, you patent the use of the drug for a certain purpose. In fact, Michelakis himself appears to have patented DCA for several cancer forms. http://www.google.com/patents?q=Michelakis&btnG=Search+P...

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=RErGAAAAEBAJ&dq=M...

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Be aware that this "it's unpatentable" thing is bullshit.

If there is a huge market for X, there is an economically feasible "unpatentable" enabler of X, then someone is going to make money doing X, and even the law won't be able to stop them.

But that's not really different for any other drug.