Biopharma research hits its first serious constraint not in the lab but in the literature stack.
Contact tracing is the foundational mechanism of outbreak control: each confirmed case becomes an index patient, and every person that patient recently touched becomes a named contact to monitor and isolate.
When a worker's wage sits close to the local cost of shelter, any downward adjustment tips the math toward housing instability.
Getting a therapeutic agent across the blood-brain barrier and into the right neurons is one problem. Achieving durable, on-target gene silencing in those neurons, without systemic toxicity, is another.