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by Isinlor 1943 days ago
Indeed, that is why I'm saying "it may", but people are crazy if they expect that basic research will make billions of profits a year after.

It normally takes some 10 to 20 years for basic research to produce profits.

mRNA vaccines are technology from 1990 and are first time used commercially on mass scale on humans 30 years later.