Genetically modified cow makes milk with human insulin

Anyolduser, 2 months ago

Boomalopes, here we come!

ghostface, 2 months ago

Yeah!!!

Now I want strawberry milk cows!

wellee, 2 months ago

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

Septimaeus, 2 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.

EdibleFriend, 2 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, 2 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.

TonyTonyChopper, 2 months ago (edited 2 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, 2 months ago

Entirely a possibility.

Ashyr, 2 months ago

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

n3m37h, 2 months ago

And with current manufacturing methods it costs a whopping 20c to make a vial

recursive_recursion, 2 months ago

oh lol I was reading the headline incorrect

had a weird/interesting linguistic huh? moment till I read the article lol

gregorum, 2 months ago

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

reddig33, 2 months ago

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