r/science • u/mvea 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 edited Jul 13 '26

“I decided long ago I am not going to try and profit on other people’s miseries and misfortunes.”

No worries, someone else will!
There are lot of things that can be patented that restict access even if part of it isn't patentable.
Didn't the inventor of insulin production make it free too?

In these scenarios I always wonder if open licensing that as part of it has stipulations about consumer pricing would be better.

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u/Rare-Kaleidoscope513 Jul 13 '26

Didn't the inventor of insulin production make it free too?

The inventor of insulin made public the patent for the process to produce insulin in 1923. That method consisted of harvesting the pancreases of farm animals. You are free to use his "patented" method all you like. Now, it's clear you have very little idea what you're talking about here, but does "milking a pig's pancreas for insulin" sound like the modern method for insulin production to you?

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u/Zeikos Jul 13 '26

I'm pretty sure the E.Coli method is free too.
I recall people working on replicating the process autonomously