16 Year old cures cystic fibrosis for science fair.

[zerocool84]

He's Asian, what a surprise.

 

[IAteYourMother]

in silica study?

sure.

a preliminary, unpublished project being reported by the media?

lol.

ah, OK, there is some in vivo work. cells, anyway.

in vitro

 

[Mo0o]

Cures are not commercially viable.
Treatments that render the disease chronic and that lessen the symptoms while not curing anything are what Big Pharma wants.

Is that why there's so much research going into vaccines?

Youre assuming every pharmaceutical company work can coordinate its efforts to avoid making cures for chronic illnesses when in reality theyre all working against each other. If a company creates a "cure" for a disease, it may lose out on the revenue from chronic medications but it gains the likely astronomic gains from this cure. Not to mention, this leaves every other company with similar chronic medications out in the lurch. So if you were companies B, C, D , E, F, it's in your interest to find the cure faster than the other guy so you're the one who still can make money off this disease.

Not to mention, there are plenty of small biotechs/pharmas that might not have any market penetration into any particular disease but can come up with the magic cure. Thats pure profit without losing any of its previous revenue stream

So is big pharma evil? maybe, but it's not nearly as organized as you think it is.

 

[M0RPH]

OP Title was purposely sensationalized.

All the usual twits would quickly get their panties in a bunch, and complain as if ATOT should be a peer reviewed scientific journal.

success.

Oh ok. I didn't realize it was cool to make up whatever BS we want in post titles in order to get more people to click. I only clicked on your thread because I thought someone had actually cured CF, only to find out that you are full of crap.

Time to go find a story about a minor advance in cancer research and my thread title will be "Cancer cured."

 

[ahenkel]

Little does he know I cured it with my mind already.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

But you can't cure cystic fibrosis currently. Gene therapies have trouble taking and are bloody expensive to boot. AFAIK this is just another in a long time of management therapies. Except this one actually shows some promise instead of crude methods like percussion therapy and prophylactic antibiotics.

 

[ElFenix]

What did you do for your science fair? Potato battery?

dropped acid

on plants to simulate acid rain​

 

[Sephire]

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