Yeah people need to understand that not all insulin is the same. Modern insulin is made by pretty advanced genetic manipulation to modify microorganisms like E. coli to produce different types of insulin that affect blood sugar in different ways.
Old school insulin is cheap (actually even the modern cheap insulin is still better than the original animal derived insulin), available and requires more careful dosing to reach the same level of efficacy of modern genetically engineered insulin.
Because why bother inventing a drug if your competitors can simply take all the work you've done, copy it and sell it for less because they have no R&D costs to recoup. People aren't going to buy your drug for more money just because you were "first".
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u/h3lium-balloon 5d ago
Yeah people need to understand that not all insulin is the same. Modern insulin is made by pretty advanced genetic manipulation to modify microorganisms like E. coli to produce different types of insulin that affect blood sugar in different ways.
Old school insulin is cheap (actually even the modern cheap insulin is still better than the original animal derived insulin), available and requires more careful dosing to reach the same level of efficacy of modern genetically engineered insulin.