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The 20-Year Pipeline Is Not a Bug

CRISPR was announced in 2012. The first Hepatitis B therapy built on it is only now entering serious trials. That 14-year gap is not a scandal. It is the cost of not killing people with untested medicine, and the real question is which parts of the pipeline we can actually compress.

By Crash Davis · 3 min read

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Bacteria Have Been Running a Gene-Sharing Network This Whole Time

Bacteria have been blowing themselves up to share antibiotic resistance genes with their neighbors, and a 2026 study finally identified the 3-gene switch that triggers it. This isn't a curiosity. It's a drug target that changes the entire logic of how we fight superbugs.

By Crash Davis · 3 min read