After a century, insulin is still expensive – could DIYers change that?
- Written by Jenna E. Gallegos, Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
Miniature biomanufacturing kits like this prototype could revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry.Amino Labs, CC BY-NDSoon after Federick Banting discovered that insulin could be used to treat diabetes in 1921, he sold the patent to the University of Toronto for about a dollar. Banting received the Nobel prize because his discovery meant a...
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