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Open Insulin, 'DIY bio' and the future of pharma
The development, manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States is a complex landscape involving intellectual property and strict federal regulations. But according to Colorado State University scientists, the status quo of the U.S. pharmaceutical market may soon be turned on its head. That's due in part to a growing community of do-it-yourself "biohackers" who are disrupting business-as-usual for pharmaceutical discovery, development and distribution. A Sept. 13 perspective piece in Trends in Biotechnology [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.07.009] [DX] frames these emerging issues, and predicts how the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. regulatory environment, will need to change in response.
[...] The authors use the California-based Open Insulin Project as a case study of how the DIY bio movement might shape the future of medicine. Founded in 2015, the project's creators are trying to increase competition in the insulin market by developing and releasing an open-source protocol for manufacturing off-patent insulin.
Why does the Open Insulin Project exist in the first place? Insulin is 100 years old, but it remains prohibitively expensive for many patients, with some uninsured patients paying up to $400 a month for this life-saving medicine. People are angry, and in some cases, people are dying, from lack of access to affordable insulin.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @01:09AM
This. So many times this. Fucking left wing crazies think everything should be free.
It's supposed to be this way. What? Can't afford your insulin *and* [food|rent|electricity|whatever]? That's because you're worthless. Anyone who can't afford to keep themselves alive deserves to die. How do I know this? Because if you ain't got the bread, you don't eat. And if you ain't got the money, you don't get the drugs. So. If you're poor, you're just a loser who is using air someone more deserving should be breathing.
That's why our fearless leader is trying so hard (with no help from those fucking RINOs in congress) to create the 'murica we used to have. When the almoghty dollar was, well, almighty.
It's just going to take a while as we weed out the democrazy voting useless poor people. As they die, we will slowly Make America Great Again.
So get out there and help us make our nation proud and happy once again -- go out and shoot some poor people. IF they're darkies, no one will even care. Not that too many folks will care about dead whites if they're poor too. But we can get to them later -- they're voting the right way for now.