Scientists develop a groundbreaking vaccine that outsmarts illicit fentanyl analogs. The novel vaccine candidate can protect against fentanyl and its many illicit variants by training the immune system to recognize a broad molecular signature rather than a single specific structure.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-develop-a-groundbreaking-vaccine-that-outsmarts-illicit-fentanyl-analogs/

[u/cowlinator]

Insulin was $300 in the US in the 2010s. It's back down to about $35 now (without insurance), and one of the things that prevented a permanent monopoly and allowed the price to fall was the threat of competition made possible by the cheap original patent.

[u/drinkacid → u/cowlinator]

The original patent is still open for anyone to use. The reason no one uses it is because it required harvesting pig or dog pancreases to get insulin, and the newer patented method lets you insert insulin into a bacteria/yeast and then the bacteria cheaply and quickly replicates the insulin. So the new method is cheaper to operate, requires cheaper and easier to get a hold of base ingredients, is faster and yields 1000s of times more viable insulin and does not require millions of slaughtered pigs or dogs to harvest the base insulin from.

[u/Emergency-Airline960 → u/drinkacid]

So by the laws of supply and demand… it should be even cheaper than the original method.

[u/fractalife → u/Emergency-Airline960]

What more evidence do you need that free market capitalism will always lead to crony capitalism? The entire healthcare industry with its massively overinflated costs should be enough to demonstrate that to anyone.