• @EdibleFriend
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    198 months ago

    It is cool but…as of right now isn’t insulin dirt cheap to make anyways? They just mark it up a few thousand percent?

    • @MeanEYE
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      68 months ago

      Cheap to make, super expensive when sold. Just look at USA. Recently increased in price over 1000%, because fuck everyone we need more money. Some people pay more than 200$ per bottle. So any source that can produce insulin cheaply is bound to drop prices these gouging assholes are setting.

      • @[email protected]
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        8 months ago

        These new guys will sell it for $199 a bottle. And then Big Pharma will give them an offer they can’t refuse, and the company gets merged into a megacorporation or dissolved

        • @MeanEYE
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          18 months ago

          Entirely a possibility.

  • @[email protected]
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    118 months ago

    So a single cow is able to produce enough insulin in a day for thousands of diabetics for a month? Astonishing.

    • gregorum
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      108 months ago

      Researchers have engineered a cow capable of producing milk that contains human insulin.

      • @reddig33
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        58 months ago

        Thanks. Headline makes it seem like some new way to keep cows perpetually producing milk by giving them insulin.

  • Ghostface
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    38 months ago

    Yeah!!!

    Now I want strawberry milk cows!

  • @wellee
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    -18 months ago

    I dont think that’s worth it? No need to mess with cows like that

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      It sounds like the GM cow is otherwise healthy and normal, not suffering.

      If you mean messing with the species’ genetics, with all due respect to cows, that ship sailed long ago.