{"id":32346,"date":"2016-12-01T20:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/sydney-high-school-students-show-up-martin-shkreli-recreating-price-hiked-pill-for-2"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:00:57","slug":"sydney-high-school-students-show-up-martin-shkreli-recreating-price-hiked-pill-for-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/sydney-high-school-students-show-up-martin-shkreli-recreating-price-hiked-pill-for-2","title":{"rendered":"Sydney high school students \u2018show up\u2019 Martin Shkreli, recreating price-hiked pill for $2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sydney-high-school-students-show-up-martin-shkreli-recreating-price-hiked-pill-for-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the biotech executive Martin Shkreli became widely reviled for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2015\/09\/22\/turing-ceo-martin-shkreli-explains-that-4000-percent-drug-price-hike-is-altruistic-not-greedy\/?utm_term=.d3ea5d73d208\">hiking the price<\/a> of a life-saving drug by more than 4,000 percent overnight, to $750 per pill.<\/p>\n<p>Public outrage at Shkreli has apparently reverberated all the way to a high school science lab in Australia, where a group of 11th grade students claim to have proven a point: the drug can be made for much, much cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>The group of 11 high school students, ages 16 and 17, successfully recreated the drug, Daraprim, for a mere $2 a pill, according to scientists from the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/12\/01\/sydney-high-school-students-show-up-martin-shkreli-recreating-price-hiked-pill-for-2\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/12\/0...ill-for-2\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, the biotech executive Martin Shkreli became widely reviled for hiking the price of a life-saving drug by more than 4,000 percent overnight, to $750 per pill. Public outrage at Shkreli has apparently reverberated all the way to a high school science lab in Australia, where a group of 11th grade students claim to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59596,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346\/revisions\/59596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}