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		FooBarWidget on April 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018) But isn't that just a market problem? Once resistance is widespread, won't companies be incentivized to find new antibiotics?

galangalalgol on April 21, 2021 [–]

There are presumably a finite number of chemicals that are of the right molecular size to get where they need to go, kill a reasonbly broad range of bacteria, and don't harm humans. We may have found them all already.

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