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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by jdietrich on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:53AM (#19876402)
Antibiotics aren't commercially valuable, which is a critical problem - drug companies have no interest in developing new antibiotics, because they won't see a return on their investment. This is one area of medicine where the problem isn't drug company profiteering, but the lack of profit.

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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by Whack-kneed on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:24PM (#19879300)
Perhaps not, but the market for industrial antibiotics in everything from cattle-feed to shredded-cheese is huge and begs if not deservesdeserves to be taxed to make page therapy economically feasible. Unless you have another approach to fighting antibiotic resistant infections.
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