Fields of Insulin

At least I have some good science to balance out yesterday's totally sucky, irritating, insane crime against humanity.

A biotech company in Canada has developed a way to harvest human insulin from genetically modified safflower oil, at dramatically reduced cost compared to the typical methods for generating insulin for diabetics. If all works as planned, they could "meet the world's total projected insulin demand in 2010 with less than 16,000 acres of safflower production." (Globe and Mail coverage)

While this is business, they are at least upfront with sound bites about wanting to expand insulin availability to the developing world...

(originally seen on /.)