Decentralized production in community laboratories may be a way to ensure that we will not fall into drug shortages when traditional supply lines are disrupted. Drug shortages often occur, even in non-crisis times, and “if you rely on drugs to sustain your life, drug shortages are terrible.” Hills said, “But if you have a community laboratory around you, you can avoid the risk of production line delays and temporary border closures. If you know you can go to a community laboratory, you can get it with a small amount of money. When you have enough insulin for one month, you will breathe a sigh of relief.” She said that the important question is whether open source insulin can satisfy the Food and Drug Administration(Food and Drug Administration) extremely strict mandatory safety requirements.
John Wilbanks(John Wilbanks) is a non-profit research organization “Sage Biological Network”(Sage Bionetworks) medical technicians. He told me that from various radical aspects, D.I.Y. Medical can be regarded as a typical American project. “We have this hard-working culture and encourage everyone to find individualistic solutions on their own.” He pointed out, “Well, this is what they are doing.”
II. D.I.Y. Biological Movement
The D.I.Y. biological movement that emerged from the millennium has almost gradually adapted to historical opportunities. It echoes all aspects of the maker culture*, and is especially similar to the garage entrepreneurship story in the early days of personal computer development. First, the hardware was made, and then the software; now even the wet parts of life can be made in one’s own home.
D.I.Y. Biology reflects the general suspicion of expert authority and gatekeeper behavior*, but it does not doubt study itself or professional knowledge. iGEN is a synthetic biology competition founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. It is aimed at undergraduates and has been expanded to include community laboratory workers and other scientists outside the system.
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e-NABLE volunteers are assembling prostheses. Source: https://enablingthefuture.org/
Volunteers submit new designs, propose new projects, and then community members vote to decide whether to grant funding. Knight Monroe, from Littleton, Colorado, recently received funding to design an arm he called “NIOP”-the abbreviation meaning “I have no medical insurance.” In 2015, Monroe once repaired a pink bicycle for a friend’s daughter, and then he tried the test bike-“riding like a clown”-his front wheel ran over a road on the concrete floor Cracks, the fall caused several injuries to his arm.
Monroe was an independent contractor at the time. He had no medical insurance and had very little savings, so he did not handle his arm properly. The infection developed. In 2017, his arm had been amputated below the elbow joint. He told the e-NABLE media staff, “I live in a country where people with insurance live a life in the first world; people without insurance live a life in a developing country.”
Monroe finally got a professional prosthetic, but during the years he waited for it, “everywhere you go, there are a large group of people, and your eyes look like they are looking at monsters.” This feeling tortured him. When he heard about e-NABLE, he joined in and started making arms for others, including a 14-year-old boy from Aleppo, Syria, who lost his entire arm from below his shoulder.
One afternoon, I went to meet with an e-NABLE volunteer Eric Babur (Eric Bubar), he was in Victoria Professor of Physics at Marymount University in Arlington, Guinia. He showed me the 3D printer he and his students used to make prosthetic hands. Plastic filaments like spaghetti were being filled into the machine.
To print all the parts of the prosthetic hand, it would take fifteen to twenty hours, and then Babur had to spend another half an hour to assemble them. When I talked to him, the printer buzzed, squeezing out purple plastic in tight circles, like a miniature Zamboni ice mill. After the machine stopped, he handed me a child-sized plastic thumb. I put it in my coat pocket and keep it as a souvenir.
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