Per the article the technology can be applied to cancer too a bigger “buisness”.

It can be advantageous for a buisness to develop these since it would basically undercut all other providers. If you make a drug that can totally cure a disease while your competitors only make on that treat it you’ve all but garunteed you will control the entire market.

I hate thinking of public health in these terms, but there are incentives to these advancements for companies