Hi Bryan,


"The real obstacle, however, is not the creation or the manufacture of
protective antibodies against pathogens, but the delivery of those
antibodies or cells into the body. Currently the only way to deliver
antibodies into the body is difficult and unreliable. One needs to
isolate stem or immune cells (B and T cells) from each individual
patient and then custom-tailor the receptors for their genetic
backgrounds, a process that is far too expensive to implement on a
mass scale."

HUH???? (what year is this, anyway?)

Customizeable individual (autologous) humoral & cytotoxic immunity-on-demand is not inordinately hard, I think. And it can possibly be achieved in computer-controlled microfluidics cells of the type that I surmise you're working on. The key, I'd guess, is to reproduce the natural temporal sequence of the various molecular environments that cause differentiation and then selection of a particular antigen-specific clonal line. The T would be harder than the B.

Once your people know their stuff - and the literature is surely out there in the public domain - I'm very confident that it can be done. This stuff is not as hard as it looks to the uninitiated, i.e., those who are stuck in the last Century. This is the 21st Century. Also, I think it's hyped as really difficult so that the current status quo: rip-off the Government; rip-off the patient - is maintained.

I'm out of the loop. Is there a huge (in terms of mindshare) Open Source Medicine Community out there?

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