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Trials for Type 1 Diabetes Cure

Posted by michael on from the avoid-sugary-foods dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this New York Times article, the pharmaceutical companies and NIH are shunning research for a cure for Type 1 diabetes. There's no money in a cure using medicine with an expired patent. Dr Faustman (researcher/professor at Harvard Medical School) has cured type 1 diabetes in mice and has been approved for Phase 1 clinical trials in humans. The only problem is raising the money, which Lee Iacocca is helping with."

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  1. We see true motivation of the big "IP" players by leonbrooks · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Summary: "If we can't bleed you dry with it, we're not interested in developing it."

    I think that's all you really need to know about the current state of play WRT patents and the like. Now how does a little inventor set about getting the protection that patents should have offered him, but don't?

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    Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
    1. Re:We see true motivation of the big "IP" players by whoda · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Well, I guess it's a good thing Vioxx and Phen-Fen are patented. I mean wow, what a money maker those 2 turned out to be.