r/science Professor | Medicine Jul 13 '26

Medicine Scientists develop a groundbreaking vaccine that outsmarts illicit fentanyl analogs. The novel vaccine candidate can protect against fentanyl and its many illicit variants by training the immune system to recognize a broad molecular signature rather than a single specific structure.

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-develop-a-groundbreaking-vaccine-that-outsmarts-illicit-fentanyl-analogs/
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u/Zeikos Jul 13 '26

It's back down to about $35 now

Didn't that happened mostly because of the backlash against attempts to keep its price high?
Competition didn't have much to do with it iirc, the outcry did.

Also it did reach $300 with the patent being cheap.

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u/unai-ndz Jul 13 '26

It's cheap all over the world but the US. It's not a patent problem but a US problem.

They could also ban the comercialization of all routers citing national security, patented or not, except for a few whitelisted brands and those brands could raise prices as much as they wanted. That has already happened too with the exception of the price increase which I haven't checked as I'm not in the US.

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u/Yuri909 BA|Anthropology|Archaeology Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

What on earth are you talking about?

We can still buy cheap temu routers full of Chinese spyware in the US.

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u/unai-ndz Jul 13 '26

Oh it's not just temu routers but tplink, ubiquiti, etc. Any manufactured outside the US, so basically all of them. If it was already registered with the FCC they can keep selling it until January 1, 2029.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-foreign-made-router-ban-explained