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Affordable Health through Open Science
In a perfect world, communities wouldn't have to make their own insulin.
But we don't live in a perfect world. Initiatives like the Open Insulin Foundation, hosted at the Baltimore Underground Science Space (BUGSS), hope to manufacture medicines on a grassroots basis. Such community labs have their critics, who are concerned about the lack of mandated government oversight. Yet the movement to decentralize science is gaining momentum, seeking to return decisions about the progress of science back to our communities and to provide access to those in need.
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Credit: Courtesy of Baltimore Underground Science Space (BUGSS), Baltimore MD, and The Open Insulin Foundation. Courtesy of Chi.Bio |