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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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[–] Trafficone@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

IMHO, DIY medication would benefit from a blend of biology and organic chemistry. Plants, fungi and recombinant bacteria can produce plenty of complex organic molecules that are biologically active for free. Then harvesting, isolating, and doing final modifications would be much less difficult than producing medications from scratch.