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making your own medicines (fourthievesvinegar.org)
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these people have created a diy lab reactor you can synthesise medicines with, but I can’t find how to make it anywhere. can anyone find out, or share from their own knowledge?

EDIT: this is a lab reactor for organic chemistry, not a bioreactor with bacteria

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[–] poVoq 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

100% agreed, however one of the promising aspects of bioreactors is that once you got a genetically modified organism to produce the compound you want, with a stable marker to select against, then you have a relatively stable production method that doesn't involve that much human error. Which is also why the pharmaceutical industry has been moving to such processes where possible.