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0 pointstoufka3y ago0 comments

There are opposite versions of that story where the drug is a specialized 1-off custom living biological product (often a patient's own engineered immune cells). An entire company's years of effort and existence are tightly coupled to a patient's survival, and sometimes they're hundreds of miles apart.

Those plane tickets, with coolers of ice in hand, are crazy to me.

And yeah, there are those cases where batch 1 was sent 'on time' with Courier 1 who didn't realize what they had, and let it thaw. And so backup batch 2 was sent 'super-express' with Courier 2 with minutes notice.

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ultimoo3y ago

This sounds fascinating -- do tell more! Was this for a large cap company CEO?

Teknoman1173y ago

The existence of these kinds of things makes me both happy and sad.

Happy - human technology is capable of these things.

Sad - only the hyper-wealthy can afford it.

Hopefully in 20 years treatments like these will be accessible to 'commoners'. So much progress has been made in the last 50 years that I wonder what the next 50 hold.

ASalazarMX3y ago

> Hopefully in 20 years treatments like these will be accessible to 'commoners'.

And we will have clean fusion energy while our General AI robots take care of our needs. Maybe just bigger smartphones, who knows?

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