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New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease (scitechdaily.com)
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Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed

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[–] 110 points 3 years ago (13 children)

It's a clash between scientists needing to be optimistic about their findings to maintain funding and real people needing it asap. We need to fund more medical research outside of for-profit corporations and increasingly expensive academia

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Imagine if there was a global fund for disease cures that all the industrialized nations poured their money and resources into.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    If you're talking about The Global Fund, they only attack very specific diseases, mostly eradicated in industrialized nations but persist due to poverty (like malaria).

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Which is silly because eradicating them in some places while leaving them elsewhere just costs more money long term.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder to what degree anti-western sentiments impact the delivery of certain treatments. Thinking about the distrust I read about after a fake vaccination campaign was used to take out bin Laden, and other distrust and anti-messaging that has to be contended with. It sounds so impossibly frustrating to have the added burden against such basic medicine.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I can just imagine the opportunities for corruption in such an organization.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’m curious how we will ever be advance to the point of being a post-scarcity space faring civilization if we don’t take these sorts of steps because we’re too busy wondering about what might go wrong

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I highly doubt we’ll get to a post-scarcity space faring civilization stage. More likely, we’re in the midst of the “self-destruction” part of the Great Filter.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Imagine if the research and development of treatments and vaccines for endemic pathogens and genetic disorders were… you know… socialized

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    I hear this argument all the time, but the majority of the major research comes from the US [1]. My inclination is that, because the US is for-profit, the cures are developed faster and the science is here. The socialized nations lack, it’s a fact, and it’s certainly not for a lack of resources

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It seems like the COViD model worked pretty well. One of these days I’d like to better understand the process, but I believe it was something like ….

    Vaccine developed by private companies but with a lot of government funding but more importantly, massive contracts at a fixed price.

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