🌱 Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming For Distributed Production

Kind of fascinating that medicine could become open sourced. Allow for far more research than only very wealthy private companies.

But looks like existing companies are fighting this.

there are huge and potentially insurmountable legal and regulatory hurdles with this plan. It may well be that the insulin industry, with a vested interest in keeping prices high — at least in the United States — will let fly their legal dogs of war, and shut this group down if they ever get close to realizing their goal