Open Insulin (nonfiction)

The Open Insulin project is an an organization dedicated to developing low-cost, do-it-yourself techniques for producing insulin.

Boing Boing reports:

The Open Insulin project ("a team of Bay Area biohackers working on newer, simpler, less expensive ways to make insulin") is trying to create an open source hardware system for making insulin in small batches, through a process that uses engineered yeast to "produce a modified proinsulin protein, and an enzyme to convert the modified proinsulin into insulin glargine" so that insulin co-ops can produce and test their own insulin for a cost "from ten thousand to a few tens of thousands of dollars."

The project is organized under Counter Culture Labs, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, making donations to it tax-deductible.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• Counter Culture Labs
• Open Insulin: biohackers trying to create a "microbrewery" for insulin as an answer to price-gouging @ Boing Boing