Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin

Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin by pitched on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:04PM (#27665310)

Growing wheat and grinding it out into flour isn’t something I’ve ever heard anyone take on as a hobby before. Having all that actually cost less (including time) than buying bread would be a huge achievement!

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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin by squeaky-clean on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:05PM (#27669468)

Adam Ragusea actually just did a 2 part video on growing his own bread from scratch in his backyard. Part 2 just came out a few hours ago.

Spoiler :P it definitely took way more time an effort than buying flour from the store and making bread. And the final product was a pretty poor loaf of bread because he couldn't find a way to buy the same type of wheat most farms use and had to settle for "animal feed" quality seeds.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPm7JtaxE4

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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin by dekhn on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:12PM (#27668212)

I imagine the guy who built his own toaster from scratch probably also contemplating rebuilding the entire pipeline to produce the input to the toast. "Step one: acquire the ore. Step two: smelting iron ore..." http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin by ineedasername on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:59PM (#27668759)

At that point we're basically talking about Factorio.

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