{"id":167712,"date":"2023-07-17T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/research-team-creates-open-source-medicine-autoinjector-for-a-tenth-of-the-cost"},"modified":"2023-07-17T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:51:22","slug":"research-team-creates-open-source-medicine-autoinjector-for-a-tenth-of-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/research-team-creates-open-source-medicine-autoinjector-for-a-tenth-of-the-cost","title":{"rendered":"Research team creates open-source medicine autoinjector\u2014for a tenth of the cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LVdJnqUqBk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sir Frederick Banting was clearly ahead of his time. He is also an inspiration for a new open source self-administering drug delivery device. Long before open source was an option or even a concept, the now-celebrated former Western lecturer refused to patent insulin because he wanted it to be inexpensive and widely available for the betterment of all.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 100 years after Banting won the Nobel Prize for his discovery, Western researchers are at it again. A team led by engineering and Ivey Business School professor Joshua Pearce has developed a new 3D printed, completely open-source <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/autoinjector\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autoinjector <\/a>\u2014a device designed to deliver a single dose of medicine\u2014for a tenth of the cost of a commercially purchased product.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, published July 14 in the journal <i>PLOS One<\/i>, describes the manufacturing design of the spring-driven device, which could cost less than $7 to make while a store-bought version is closer to $70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Frederick Banting was clearly ahead of his time. He is also an inspiration for a new open source self-administering drug delivery device. Long before open source was an option or even a concept, the now-celebrated former Western lecturer refused to patent insulin because he wanted it to be inexpensive and widely available for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}