I never liked "class politics". Classical democratic party strategy depended on its effectiveness for decades. Even the Bolsheviks were violently against the mean-big, even nasty, capitalist-class bourgeoisie. A number of hard core democrats still advocate: But "that wasn't real socialism."
There is good news.
Even small, yes tiny, pharma can get an opportunity within free markets in a free society. Although this may come as a surprise to some here at CARM, capitalism actually works and
hard-working people have invented the technology to prove it. In 1978, for example, scientists were introducing liposomes into human and mice cells in order to transport mRNA and they were successful. They didn't start from scratch since these experiments were built on tests conducted earlier in the 1960's. Back in those times, very few, if any scientists were contemplating the use of mRNA as an actual medical product. However, that
zero-dollar paradigm changed in about 1984 at Harvard University when a team of developmental biologists derived an mRNA synthesis enzyme from a virus and injected it into frog eggs.
The team thought their experiments were restricted to a research lab and used it solely as a useful tool. However, two of the scientists, Krieg and Milton, in 1987 discovered that mRNA can be employed for both activation and prevention of protein production. Realizing this potential, they started their own company called Oligogen that later became Gilead Sciences. No one was thinking using this invention for vaccines and money for their continued research only trickled in.
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