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title: ""Citing the tremendous cost of new drugs, an international group of…"
date: 2019-08-30
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# "Citing the tremendous cost of new drugs, an international group of…

*August 30, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614245/biohackers-are-pirating-a-cheap-version-of-a-million-dollar-gene-therapy/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1567186508](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614245/biohackers-are-pirating-a-cheap-version-of-a-million-dollar-gene-therapy/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1567186508){target="_blank"}
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\"Citing the tremendous cost of new drugs, an international group of biohackers say they are creating a knock-off of a million-dollar gene therapy.\
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The drug being copied is Glybera, a gene therapy that was the world's most expensive drug when it came on the market in Europe in 2015 with a \$1 million per treatment price tag. Glybera was the first gene therapy ever approved to treat an inherited disease.\"
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