We’re a team of biohackers with a variety of backgrounds, and skills, and relationships to insulin and diabetes, from many cities and countries around the world, including Oakland, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Paraiba, Brazil; Paris, France; Dakar, Senegal; Yaounde, Cameroon; and Puerto Rico. We’re working to develop the first practical, small-scale, community-centered model for insulin production to make insulin accessible to all. This model will ensure communities in need have local sources of safe, affordable, high-quality insulin, and that people living with diabetes and their communities own and govern the organizations that produce the medicine they depend on to survive.
Sounds cool. From the Cell article it seems that regulations are one of the biggest hurdles to n overcome though, hope that’s something to overcome.
Of course regulations could be a huge issue. Mainly because big pharma effectively influences legislation and is lobbying for their monetary profit, not for our well-being. The potential of ‘home-brewed’ insulin, would be bad for their business.
Btw I suppose you talking about this article: The Open Insulin Project: A Case Study for ‘Biohacked’ Medicines