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by markdown 29 days ago
> Again, the investment needed boogles the mind, around 10B currently, for a single drug.

These are made up numbers though. 99% of that is overheads of a massive corporation. A tiny fraction of 10B would pay for all the brightest minds in teh world for a decade. Another tiny fraction to pay for a lab and lab techs.