Are you knowledgeable in medical ethics? It’s well known that it’s unethical to be offering experimental treatments, even to desperate patients, that don’t have at least the very low bar of “does this cause immediate death or serious life worsening of animal models, does this appear to have any benefit in animal models”.
There was in fact a whole scandal about this recently with artificial tracheas. Living with a tube in your throat to breathe is a horrible way to live, but the people who got artificial ones died horrible and slow deaths because they evidence of their efficacy in mouse models were forged through a cult of personality of the head researcher and the promise of potential life changing gains.
There was in fact a whole scandal about this recently with artificial tracheas. Living with a tube in your throat to breathe is a horrible way to live, but the people who got artificial ones died horrible and slow deaths because they evidence of their efficacy in mouse models were forged through a cult of personality of the head researcher and the promise of potential life changing gains.