• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Discovery gets bought for an obscene amount of money, NDA is signed, discovery is never spoken of again.

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      This is very rarely the case. Almost always they come across some draw back, that makes it completely impractical, and 5-10-15- whatever, years pass without anyone overcoming said drawback.

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        2 months ago

        Cancer treatment also has had lots of improvements but they aren’t newsworthy if they’re not the Cure to Cancer™️

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          Yeah, lots of people do not realize it is not one disease, it is unregulated cell growth, of many kinds, caused by many diseases.