Several Chinese students use the cost of 20 yuan to crack 110,000 anti-AIDS drugs

Two days ago, I believe that many people have been brushed up by friends in this news. The title is very eye-catching. "Several middle school students 20 yuan to crack anti-AIDS medicine, profiteers sell 110,000! The real version of the big bang of life, the reading volume is 100,000+.

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The whole story is not complicated to say, and it perfectly matches Hollywood's consistent narrative logic:

1. There is a dragon that breaks the stability of the world. An anti-Ai life-saving drug called Daraprim suddenly rose 55 times, from $13.5/piece to $750/piece. The back pot was a profiteer named Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. .

2. Superheroes appear and conflicts and conflicts occur. A group of Asian high school students in Sydney didn't want to see human beings sink into indifference, risking safety and starting the hard-to-find recipe cracking in the lab.

3. Kill the dragon, save the princess and the world. After a year of smashing, they successfully equipped with dalapirin and also opened up their own formulas and experimental methods. Most importantly, the cost of the 3.7 grams of drugs they synthesized was less than $20, and in the United States, these weights were as high as $110,000.

Several Chinese students use the cost of 20 yuan to crack 110,000 anti-AIDS drugs

Like you, Ouba is also watching the blood, but the rationality and occupational sensitivity of the patentee reminds me that this is not so simple.

The main character of the story, Daraprim, who belongs to the patent?

Ouba checked the patent database in the first time. In fact, this is an uncompromising old drug. It was developed by Nobel Prize winner Gertrude Elion in 1952. It was originally used to treat malaria. Later, it gradually became Become an important drug to fight AIDS.

Several Chinese students use the cost of 20 yuan to crack 110,000 anti-AIDS drugs

Image data source: patent database

It should be known that the patent protection period for drugs is only 20 years. In other words, this "anti-Ai-medicine" has already moved toward "open source" as early as the 1970s. Any pharmaceutical company in the world can easily find synthetic formulas on the Internet and produce such a box of more than 100,000 "anti-AIDS" drugs in the United States for legitimate legal reasons.

Take China for example, this anti-AIDS drug will also sell a few cents.

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