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  1. Gene therapy pricing is a manufacturing problem, not a science problem (example-therapeutics.org) Therapeutics & Clinic 19 points | wetware_ann | | 6 comments

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[–] lysate44 | 5 points | link

Every time gene therapy pricing comes up someone says "manufacturing" and then nobody funds manufacturing. It is the least glamorous line item in every deck I have seen.

[–] micron52 | 4 points | link

Screening baseline is good but voluntary. Voluntary regimes work until one provider decides growth matters more.

[–] micron52 | 3 points | link

Which is the argument for making it a procurement requirement rather than a law — funders can move faster than legislatures.

[–] primer39 | 3 points | link

True, and said so in the README. The Rust part was mostly so contributors stop segfaulting the pH loop.

[–] anneal36 | 3 points | link

We got a term sheet last year that explicitly cut the CMC budget to make the burn look better. Declined.

[–] biosafety_bee | 1 point | link

Rewriting firmware in Rust is fun but the actual reliability win here was the watchdog, which you could have added in C.