Great story about gene therapy cures and insurance from Wired. Will insurers pay current costs?
#genetherapy #hemophilia #AAV #medicine #Costofgoods #medmastodon #bigpharma #medicine
https://www.wired.com/story/the-era-of-one-shot-multi-million-dollar-genetic-cures-is-here/
@JanNolta bringst up a burning topic: how will we as a society leverage the massive price tags of new therapies...especially if these therapies can lead to cures?
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While a better solution does not arrive, we need more of this 👇
@halama_immuno Yes - there is some hope here with a research emphasis on things like off the shelf CARTs
@halama_immuno @cyrilpedia yes, working on this!! Production yields for these vectors are still awful.
@cyrilpedia is absolutely true. Will also see whether other biotechnologies allow reducing production costs...