You can’t blame California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his lack of ambition. “California is going to make its own insulin. It’s easy,” he said this month. A government that can’t keep up with a working power grid is now planning to make a complex biologic drug.
Mr Newsom says the state will spend $100 million to develop low-cost insulin and to build a manufacturing facility in the state. Piece of Cake. Well, in fact, manufacturing insulin is a complex process that even large drug makers struggle with. Biologic drugs like insulin are complex and often made from living cells or tissue.
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You can’t blame California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his lack of ambition. “California is going to make its own insulin. It’s easy,” he said this month. A government that can’t keep up with a working power grid is now planning to make a complex biologic drug.
Mr Newsom says the state will spend $100 million to develop low-cost insulin and to build a manufacturing facility in the state. Piece of Cake. Well, in fact, manufacturing insulin is a complex process that even large drug makers struggle with. Biologic drugs like insulin are complex and often made from living cells or tissue.