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by kaonwarb 530 days ago
Apropos: "Analysis of animal-to-human translation shows that only 5% of animal-tested therapeutic interventions obtain regulatory approval for human applications" - https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
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Kind of makes you wonder what kind of biotechnology we could build if we didn't care about all that. There would be some pretty gnarly human suffering, but imagine if biological technology could progress at the same rate as electronics.

Morally abhorrent, of course, but there would be some benefits...