What is the purpose of disseminating "biohacking" to the world that enables patients to make medicine on their own?


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Individuals and small-scale organizations learn biology and life science and do research, not by traditional research institutionsBio hackingMovement has become bigger in recent years, and proposed a butter coffee that became a boom in JapanDave AspriMr. has also confirmed bio hackers. As one such bio-hacking, Michael Lofer is sending out information so that the patient can make medicine himself. Since we are transmitting "information" instead of "product"American Food and Drug AdministrationWhat is the purpose of Mr. Lofer 's not being regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)STATIs approaching its purpose and vision.

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Mr. Lofer saidFour Thieves VinegarIt is a leader of the organization called "Epi · Pencil", a self-injector for relieving anaphylactic shock, which allows you to DIY at 30 dollars (about 3400 yen), which is one-twentieth of the market price.

The following image shows Mr. Lofer. What I have in my hand is my own Epi · Pencil.


The way to DIY epi · pencil is published on YouTube, and the number of times the movie is played at the time of article creation exceeds 300,000 times.

EpiPencil - YouTube


The purpose of Mr. Lofer is not only to make Epi · Pencil but also "desktop laboratory" which allows patients to make more extensive medical tools and medicines with DIY, expensive C pill for hepatitis "SophosbuvilleMake a recipe collection that can make home at home.

Of course, many experts are warning about making drugs at DIY, but recently pharmaceutical companies have lifted the price of drugs out of reach of patients requiring medicine, loafers He sees his activities as a "moral revolution". "It is murder to make medicines accessible to patients unable to be accessed, and stealing (intellectual property) to prevent murder is morally acceptable" is the word of Mr. Lofer .


Professor Vinay Prasad of the University of Oregon Health Sciences says that "emergency measures are required in emergency," and in the United States where high-priced medicines with a median price of one year of $ 750,000 (about 85 million yen) "Although it is reckless that a patient tries to make medicine on his own, the appearance of a person like Mr. Lofer can not be avoided".

I interviewed Mr. LoferSTATAccording to Mr. Lofer who was born as a son of a journalist, it is not in a state of economy that would require drugs made with DIY. Mr. Lofer who is the perfect fit of Jet Black's suit and Paisley's vest is usually teaching mathematics at Menloo College in California, and home has an exclusive residential area. At the university I learned particle physics, I am acquiring 18 to 19 languages ​​combined with modern and ancient, and when I was a graduate student, I got to a level where I could translate French papers in a day in necessity .

And, in response to the question "Who is the role model?" Mr. Lofer answered "Gandhi" while looking for sauté of champagne and scallop with a luxury French bistro, and in 1930 Gandhi wentMarch of saltHe said he compared his own act of fighting the monopoly of the pharmaceutical company.

Loafers Mr. has said, "I do not want to be bound by the idea that" anarchist must be rough way "", in the class of university students and "he has received serious about that lesson." He said he was wearing a suit to be transmitted. In addition, when teaching mathematics at the prison, loafers Mr. has added that wearing a leather rather than a suit since it is necessary to ride a bike.

The turning point of Mr. Lofer was that he volunteered in El Salvador several years ago. Mr. Lofer says he strongly remembers the moment when a nurse said in the frontier area "antibiotics and pills have gone away." Both were cheap generic drugs, but suppliers could not immediately deliver to that place. At that time, "It is ridiculous, they should be able to make medicines in a simple laboratory," Mr. Lofer says.

Two years after the incident, Mr. Lofer started a plan to allow patients who were deprived of the right to be given to make the necessary medications themselves.

As of 2017, Mr. Lofer is exploring ways to make Sophosbville, a remedy for hepatitis C, inexpensively with DIY. According to Mr. Lofer, if you use DIY's medicine it will cost $ 800 if you are going to need 84,000 dollars (about 9.5 million yen) before treating hepatitis C in Sophosbuir out of the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, (About 90,000 yen) is possible. Mr. Lofer 's purpose is to save many lives by releasing knowledge. For this matter, Gilead Sciences has refused comments.

Mr. Lofer's group has experts from several disciplines including doctors. With the help of them, Mr. Lofer creates a way to make life saving medicine cheaply at home, but neither group has I refuse the interview. This is because they are "different levels of harassment and litigationParanoiaThat's why, "Lofer said. Even Mr. Lofer says he does not know their real name for the sake of themselves and the security of their colleagues. However, a plan to make a home laboratory lab is in progress, and beta version is scheduled to be released in 2017.

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Meanwhile, the manufacturing of Softhabuville, even just a few mistakes in contamination andOverdoseThere is a fear that it can lead to major dangers, such as the drug company is also burning a hand. She is a former NASA synthetic biologist and works as a bio hackerODINCEO Josiah Zeiner said Mr. Lofer's activities were "Proof of conceptIt is the concept of "The First Step of the Revolution," and it seems that Lofer's products will be on the big market while praising the greatness of the medicine in recipes and labs made by Lofer. Not appearing. "I do not know if Michael will change the world, but he is a symbolic person," Zeiner says.

It is a person who needs a household laboratory or DIY medicine is a person who is in a state of being in a state of being in a state of being in a distressed state that can not afford an expensive medicine or a person enjoining the experiment itself and regarding the idea that the market becomes very narrow , Mr. loffer himself admit it. Mr. Lofer says "Apart from himself, there is no one who makes medicine even though medicine is fully available." After publishing how to make Epi · Pencil on YouTube, I do not know whether there was any person who actually used epi · pencil and used it. Also, some YouTube channels pointed out that there were some weaknesses when DIY Ei penciled in the way Lofer said.

But what matters to Mr. Lofer is not "market power" but "to give power to patients without other methods".

Four Thieves Vinegar does not sell the product, it only gives free advice and support to people, so it does not violate the law. According to experts, this approach of Four Thieves Vinegar can not intervene by FDA, which controls what is called 'medicine'.

Mr. Lofer says that even if other entrepreneurs sell "micro laboratory" proposed by Four Thieves Vinegar as a product, they do not intend to object to objections. Political movement to change the situation is lacking As of 2017, spreading the way bio hackers make medicines with DIY and developing tools is a success that Mr. Lofer's attempt is successful It is for demonstration. However, it is concerned that DIY drug making of the concept "Do not rely on doctors and pharmaceutical companies" is regarded as "requiring skilled skill" again.

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Mr. Hank Greley of Stanford University's Law and Biological Sciences Center said about the behavior of people making medicines at DIY "Only if you do not hurt anyone, I think that a competent adult takes reckless and ridiculous behavior I am willing to accept that. " However, if someone following Loafer died by mistake, it seems that though he is not legally, he believes that moral responsibility arises.

Mr. Lofer says to Mr. Greeley's opinion, "I feel ethical responsibility for those who do not have access to treatment methods and die, I am wondering how to make medicines to save people's lives Knowing that I do not tell it to the world is felt as if someone died due to the sin that I collided. "

Mr. Lofer said FDAAmerican Research and Pharmaceutical Industry Association(PhRMA), it is not yet created an article yet. "I am not yet a threat enough for them, but I will continue to challenge," Lofer said.

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