Therapeutics and Vaccines: Who's Afraid of the Übermensch?

Therapeutics, vaccines, Regeneron, will therapeutics replace vaccines?, the biotechnology industry, genetic engineering, Stanford, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), the roll of the Bay area in biotech, advances in gene editing during the 1990s, mRNA and its links to therapeutics, Jesse Gelsinger, Bush II and bans on research, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the advent of synthetic biology, cell therapy, stem cells, embryonic stem cell controversy, CRISPR, CRISPR CaS9, Jennifer Dounda, Emmanuelle Cherpentier, Feng Zhang, Broad Institute, UC Berkeley, Intellia Therapeutics, CRISPR Therapeutics, Operation Warp Speed, Editas Medicine, Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), Covid vaccines, why the Covid vaccines are more like a therapeutic, AI biotech, AlphaFold2, tech money piles into biotech post pandemic, Arc Institute, Vitalik Buterin, Big Pharma and its lack of involvement in therapeutics, Big Tech's entry into defense and healthcare, Peter Thiel, Thiel as the catalyst for modern therapeutic research, life-extension, Thiel's extensive investment in therapeutics and biotech, Jason Camm, Jim Mellon, Brexit, Thiel's lack of investment in CRISPR

Resources

Trump on "miracle drugs":

https://www.yahoo.com/news/article/trump-coronavirus-twitter-video-234914108.html?guccounter=1

On the links between therapeutics and the Covid vaccines

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02444-3/fulltext

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12179814/

AI Biotech

https://whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/science/summary/ai

Big Tech and AI biotech

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2024/03/13/why-nvidia-google-and-microsoft-are-betting-billions-on-biotechs-ai-future/

How funding for biotech has unfolded since the 2010s

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/how-healthy-exchange-ideas-rfk-jr-kicked-fdas-gene-therapy-push

Thiel's Links to Biotech

https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/03/16/168909/a-contrarian-in-biotech/

https://sociallifemagazine.com/celebrities/bezos-thiel-longevity-investments/

https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/emerald-therapeutics-peter-thiel.html

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/thiel-s-breakout-labs-fuels-four-new-life-science-companies

https://alloytx.com/42-million-series-d-financing/

https://www.wholesaleinvestor.com/epiaxis-therapeutics-peter-thiel-backed-peptilogics-enter-strategic-partnership/

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-funded-de-extinction-animal-resurrection-woolly-mammoth-2017-6

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/synthego-after-raising-forced-bankrupcty-20331773.php

Jason Camm's bio

https://www.berentx.com/company

Music by: Keith Allen Dennis

https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/

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