• Question: If you could choose one drug you could amplify to make it better without harming the consumer, what would it be and what does the drug do.

    Asked by NobeliumHoliumMolybdenum to Sudhin, Sergio, Katie, Frances, Diarmuid, Aoife on 19 Nov 2019.
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      Katie Fala answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      I’m not sure I understand your question; do you mean amplify in the sense of making more of that drug available, or improving the drug perhaps?

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    NobeliumHoliumMolybdenum commented on :

    I meant if you could make it stronger with out hurting anyone who takes the products, what would the product be. E.g paracetamol.

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    Katie commented on :

    Ohhhh good question…. I’m not sure. I’d guess I’d really like to get chemotherapy drugs to better target the cancer cells. Most of them will tend to affect other cells in the body equally with respect to the cancerous cells, causing the difficult side effects. Similiarly for antibiotics, I don’t think that we necessarily need stronger antibiotics, but having more targeted ones that kill the problematic bacteria without also wiping out the ‘good’ bacteria in our gut would be really useful.