Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
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#2this is a great story, about how to get around an obstacle in a creative way.
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#3This is sort of meta, but it's cool to see Free Think popping up here. It's a great publication that I think would really be of interest to this community.
More germane to the article, it will be interesting to see what happens over the next 10 years as bio-tech becomes more accessible to hacker types and hobbyists.
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#4Pretty cool, but it's a problem with the law and needs to be fixed in law.
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#5Pretty cool, but it's a problem with the law and needs to be fixed in law.
If you wait for that, all diabetics will be dead probably…
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#6I really wish this would be a higher priority for the current class of billionaire philanthropists: open source science.
Medical research guided by the idea of preventing disease rather than creating expensive life-long treatments, and prioritizing the diseases that cause the most amount of suffering rather than present the best opportunity for profit. And not just medicine, but just about any industry could benefit.
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#7Pretty cool, but it's a problem with the law and needs to be fixed in law.
it was (going to be) but then the new guy reversed the previous guy's decision
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#8This is bogus.
Wal-mart sells insulin for $24.88 a vial without prescription currently.
It's only the newer 'guchi' insulin brands that are crazy expensive. Stuff from 1996 that is compared to in this article is actually cheaper than it was in 1996 (adjusted for inflation).
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#9Insulin is a solved problem, in first-world countries the sale price is fixed and there's public healthcare.
But in America you are supposed to take "personal responsibility" for your own health and biohack your way ouf of type 1 diabetes?! Srsly?
This s a political, not a scientific problem. Call your congresscritter.
Re: Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
#10This is bogus. Wal-mart sells insulin for $24.88 a vial without prescription currently. It's only the newer 'guchi' insulin brands that are crazy expensive. Stuff from 1996 that is compared to in this article is actually cheaper than it was in 1996 (adjusted for inflation).
it’s “Gucci”, like the luxury brand