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I'm not sure what this is hoping to accomplish. Coming up with a lab method to make insulin is about 5% of the way to providing actual insulin for patients.

You'd still need to: 1) develop a scaleable process [pilot plant], 2) have a robust enough analytical process to make sure you're not killing anyone, 3) have a reproducible process so that each dose is the same.




If the choice is between people dying due to lack of insulin or not people will take an untested insulin.


This isn’t going to produce any insulin. You need equipment and a sterile fill line.


The drug companies selling generics manage to do all that for a low price.


Because they millions and millions of vials. The cost of a factory isn’t that much when spread out across that much volume.




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