But something else I find interesting about this study – it was all carried out by academic research – not Big Pharma.
For all the conspiracy theorists out there who think cures for diseases are being withheld because the treatments wouldn't be profitable to pharmaceutical companies – here is a clear example that you are full of shit.
This potential treatment for asthma uses drugs that already exist and most likely wouldn't be profitable to pharmaceutical companies. So academic research steps in and fills the void. Just one (of many) reasons funding for academic research is important.
Here's the original article:
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/284/284ra60
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Asthma could be cured within five years after drug breakthrough
Scientists at Cardiff University and Kings College London have found out what causes asthma and how to switch it off
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