Ruxandra Teslo
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Geneticist by training and writer on science, medicine and policy. She holds a PhD in genomics, writes at Ruxandra's Substack and for Works in Progress, and…
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Updated 2026-09-18 -
14 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Curing disease is not worth it if the price is the permanent deprecation of most human beings' existence. (opens korrents.com)
“As someone coming from a biology background, who considers “curing disease” as a very noble mission, I still believe that the vague promise of “curing disease” is fundamentally not worth it if it comes with a form of…”
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AI will not on its own compress decades of medical progress into a few years, because the binding constraint is human data, clinical trials and regulation rather than intelligence. (opens korrents.com)
“I told him what I believe: that in the age of AI, medicine will be bottlenecked more than ever by regulation and the grind of clinical trials, and that billions poured into faster pre-clinical research won’t touch that…”
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Pharmaceutical R&D productivity has fallen for decades: far more money spent per drug, with no matching improvement in the odds a candidate reaches the market. (opens korrents.com)
“Take Eroom’s Law: the number of new drugs approved per dollar of R&D has fallen for decades, even as our scientific tools have grown vastly more powerful, the exact opposite of what the existence of more raw capability…”
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Curing disease is not worth it if the price is the permanent deprecation of most human beings' existence. (opens korrents.com)