In a society where access and affordability of medicines are real challenges, can biohackers be considered as “heroes” for social justice in health? Are there other creative solutions?
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In this article, it discusses the reality of how extremely expensive medical researches and clinical trials are. It also introduces with how biohackers, a group of independent biologists, are proudly pirating a cheap version of million-dollar gene therapies. We are now forcibly faced with the question: are they medicine’s Robin Hood or a threat to safety? What about concerns regarding in Bioethics?
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