Replies to post #134048 on Biotech Values

[poorgradstudent]

Well tox would be much less of a problem - we'd just mutate to avoid the toxicity!

I knew it! You're soft on pesticides.

All you people think we can just mutate away our problems.


(this line of bantering makes me realize how much I miss Gary Larson's work)

[DewDiligence]

…tox would be much less of a problem - we'd just mutate to avoid the toxicity!

By the same token, rapid mutations might render drugs less efficacious even within the course of an individual trial, so it’s not clear that the net effect would be more approvals.