Posted by JohnX2 on October 27, 2001, at 12:37:42
In reply to smart-bomb drugs, posted by JohnX2 on October 27, 2001, at 12:13:03
I must admit I am finally becoming impressed
with the methodology. Prior to this it seems
like med development has been such a shot gun
approach. I.e. just punch out a bunch of dirivatives
of meds and see what they do, instead of thinking
about the problem to be solved and working
methodically to develop a med that should work
in an expected fasion.Just think if I designed computer chips and told
you "we don't know why it works, it just does".
Hence my frustration with the state of psychopharmacology
to date.Anyways, if they clean out all the meds to the
point that a quicky screening visit to the
GP gets you a good anti-dote without all sorts
of follow up visits and medication changes, where
will the psyhiatrists make their money? hmm.-John
>
> I've been looking at some of the recently
> granted pantents (e.x. #6,107,324 for a
> 5ht-2a inverse agonist) regarding DNA targeted
> psych medications. These companies are honing in on
> the specific dna in the brain and should have
> mechanisms to come out with clean meds that are
> like smart-bombs (like the difference between
> what we saw in bombing in the Gulf War and the
> scatter bombing in WWII). Should put a new perspective
> on what we coin "selective".
>
> This patent has as part of its invention disclosure
> figures of genotyped receptor ligands. Literally
> pages poping out of my printer
> of ATGAT...GGACGTA.GATT.. blah. Straight out of
> the movie GATACA. ...
>
> -john
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