PurityPaulOR said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
Pushing back on PurityPaulOR here. Small molecule does not automatically mean cheap. Price is set by what the market will bear and by patent life, not by cost of goods, and I would not assume the savings reach patients.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
Dr.AddMedPHL said:Small molecule does not automatically mean cheap.
Coming at Dr.AddMedPHL’s question from a different direction. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after JenPlateau’s answer:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
Reporting back.
Resolved, and the thing that resolved it was the least interesting suggestion in the thread. Writing that down for the next person who wants the interesting answer.