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Re:We came up with a cure to cancer and no VC wants to fund us by daughart on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @08:35PM (#9580320)
It seems really doubtful a startup would have two breakthrough drugs in different categories. I wouldn't answer an email with this information either. Plus the light conspiracy talk about pharma companies wanting a treatment not a cure... It reduces your legitimacy. Look at the hepatitis cure, it's one of the biggest blockbusters of recent history.

How have you funded the R&D necessary to discover these compounds?

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Re:We came up with a cure to cancer and no VC wants to fund us by daughart on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @09:13PM (#9580443)
In physics, there is a mathematical foundation upon which to build theory. In biology there is no theory. There's no way to design drugs based on an equation or a back-of-the-napkin doodle. There are no examples of therapeutics breakthroughs that arose other than through (very costly) experimentation, which is unlikely to occur at the desk of a patent clerk.
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