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Chapter 190 Huaxia Biohacker Team
Lianhua Pharmaceutical's old background was quickly stripped away on the Internet.

This company is a listed company that has been established for eight years. It is keen to introduce foreign patented drugs and sell them as agents in China for profit. It has also acquired several domestic bankrupt pharmaceutical companies and launched a series of commonly used generic drugs.

However, they have always claimed that they invest a lot of money in research and development every year, and are developing innovative drugs, which has caused the company to continue to lose money.

The company's annual report is also decent. If you don't know the inside story, you can't see any problems at all just by looking at the surface.

Anyone with a heart can tell at a glance that this company is not a real pharmaceutical research and development company at all, and the so-called investment in research and development is just pretending.

What's even more outrageous is that the drug research and development center located in District xx, which the company allegedly spent a lot of money, was also exposed by photos taken by nearby residents.

The so-called high-cost R&D center, with a high-end R&D team with dozens of Ph.D., turned out to be just an office in an old building.

In the photo, on the house number 401, the words "Lotus Pharmaceutical Drug Research and Development Center" are impressively visible.

Through the dusty windows, you can see that there are several cabinets, tables and chairs in the office, with sundries and some documents on them, all covered with dust.

It looks like no one has been there for many years.

Enthusiastic residents also thoughtfully added relevant information: "Hehe, I asked the guard, this place is still rented, the sign has been up for five or six years, and no one usually comes here. There are also several R&D institutes of pharmaceutical companies next to the office. There are some pharmaceutical representatives inside, and these domestic pharmaceutical companies are all the same breed."

Netizens were stunned.

"This pharmaceutical company is really an eye-opener. Can this be considered a research and development center? Isn't it an abandoned office?"

"I'll go. This is comparable to the utility room in the backyard of my grandma's house. Would you mind putting up a sign for a drug research and development center?"

"Am I blind? What about the legendary doctoral research and development team in white coats? The world has evaporated?"

"Is there a mistake? Could it be that Lotus has other R&D centers? Otherwise, it would be too outrageous."

"No mistake, this company has two places, one is the headquarters, in a commercial building in the city center, it is also a small office with several rooms, and the other is the R&D center."

"This company's annual report must have been faked. Where did the research and development investment come from? It's a lie."

"Is this the legendary high-tech pharmaceutical company with a market value of billions? I was so shocked that my eyeballs fell out."

"The coquettish operations of some domestic pharmaceutical companies are really amazing. Shouldn't this be reported to the China Securities Regulatory Commission?"

"Damn it, the stock price of this company has gone up quite a bit. Why the hell did I buy it? It's really outrageous."

"Brother, I hope there is still time. Run faster and don't get caught."

"Khan, the lower limit has already been reached, sorry upstairs!"

Soon, the China Securities Regulatory Commission announced that it would conduct a series of investigations into the fraudulent annual reports of Lotus Pharmaceuticals.

The stock price of Lotus Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. fell in response, and went straight to the 1 yuan mark without stopping.

With such serious financial fraud and continuous loss of net profit, this company seems unable to turn around again, and it is estimated that it will be forced to delist soon.

Netizens clapped their hands and applauded, this melon couldn't be more enjoyable to eat.

"The share price of the unscrupulous drug company plummeted, and it was investigated by the government. It's really satisfying!"

"You deserve it, you made a fortune in a low-key way when you earned money that you didn't care about, and you frankly reported Sanqing, you will be punished now."

"Mr. Wei's lucky star shines brightly, and his merits are immeasurable. How can a mere villain be able to shake him? No, the damage rebounds, and the opponent is instantly eaten back."

"This melon is so comfortable to eat from the beginning to the end, and I changed a few flavors in the middle, it is simply an annual melon field feast."

"At the beginning, it was talking about the chaos of self-pharmaceuticals, and then there was a quarrel, and the various forces ended up fighting. Later, Mr. Wei came out and made a final decision. The official speech made the final conclusion. Finally, the villain behind the scenes overturned and was reported to the Securities Regulatory Commission. It's been a long time. It's a big show!"

Wei Kang also saw the matter of Lotus Pharmaceuticals. This ending is really a twist, even he didn't expect it.

It's just that the opponent's navy was too jumpy, and he wanted to hammer it to vent his anger, but it turned out to be a glass man, which shattered to pieces as soon as he hammered it.

Hey, no matter you are a person or a business, you have to be strong, so you are not afraid of being hammered.

In fact, he was not angry when he was reported at the beginning, but he was a little dumbfounded. Later, he was forced to come forward when he saw online trolls secretly smearing the shared laboratory and trying to block the way for patients to make their own medicines.

Moreover, he was only supporting the self-pharmaceutical, pointing out the villain's behavior reported by Lotus Pharmaceutical, and did not intend to directly kill the other party.

Unexpectedly, the other party aroused public indignation, and the powerful netizens immediately found ironclad evidence of fraud. This is really unexpected, and an iron fist fell from heaven.

He couldn't help shaking his head, he still blamed Lianhua for being too deadly, if he knew today, why bother.

Just when Lotus Pharmaceutical almost swallowed its last breath, its deeds also spread overseas, especially in Eagle Country, which attracted attention.

Because the originator of the $200 drug, Weilang Company, is also under investigation by the relevant departments of Eagle Country.

It was simply a murder caused by trientine hydrochloride.

Eagle Nation's media has a very sensitive nose, and at the same time they reported the bloody incident in Huaxia, causing huge public opinion pressure on Weilang Company.

The public in Eagle Country saw that the unscrupulous drug companies in Huaxia were about to delist, Qu Enting could not be sold, and Huaxia patients could even make their own medicines. This problem was really solved beautifully.How to put it, the Eagle Country, which is known as the lighthouse of civilization, can't lose to the other side.

Wilson's patient is also holding up a small sign every day to appeal, demanding that Weilong Company be severely punished, so as to make an example of others.

CEO Thomas spent this period of time in fear. Facing the bombardment of the media and regulators every day, he was miserable, and his round face became thinner.

He even had several sudden illnesses and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment before he persisted through intensive interrogation.

In the end, he resigned sadly and left Weilang Company, and the stock price of Weilang Company also fell below the bottom line and fell into a slump.

The matter came to an end, but the vast number of overseas netizens also gained a new understanding of Sanqing Pharmaceuticals in this incident.

In their minds, this Huaxia pharmaceutical company was a high-tech innovative pharmaceutical company. Although it developed anti-cancer drugs and AD specific drugs and saved many people, the price was too expensive, and it was still far away from ordinary people.

But now, there was Sanqing’s price limit order on genetic drugs before, and shared laboratories later supported patients’ self-preparation and cracked down on sky-high prices.

All these behaviors have made overseas netizens look at each other with admiration.

Especially the patients in Eagle Country. Their medical system is unique in the world. Everyone has been suffering from high-priced medicines for a long time.

It's a pity that due to the system problems of the two countries, Sanqing's solution will not work in Eagle Country, and the patients can only sigh and try to find another way.

In order to combat high drug prices and reduce medical and health expenditures, the government, enterprises, and patients are all trying their best.

Even the hospitals in their own country couldn't bear the high drug prices and shot directly.

As early as last year, several medical groups in Eagle Country announced their own establishment of a generic drug company to combat high drug prices and reduce medical expenses.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused heated discussions. Eight months later, this new pharmaceutical company finally became a reality in the near future.

Not only in the Eagle Country, but even in the whole world, there was no generic drug manufacturer established by the hospital itself before this.

What's more special is that this is a non-profit enterprise, behind which are not pharmaceutical factories and drug dealers, but major hospitals.

It is understood that this pharmaceutical company called Lantian was jointly established by 7 large hospital groups including Intermountain Medical Group and Mayo Clinic and 3 public welfare foundations, and will include nearly 500 hospitals.

In addition, government departments such as the Eagle Country Department of Veterans Affairs and the Hospital Association also joined in and negotiated with them to address their special needs.

It is reported that Blue Sky Pharmaceuticals will sign a contract with its member hospitals every time before producing medicines, which will specify the types, quantities and prices of medicines that each hospital will buy.

Each hospital will pay the same and transparent price with a commitment to continue purchasing the drug from Blue Sky.

Most importantly, the contract stipulates that all hospitals cannot buy all the drugs at once to avoid shortages of other member hospitals.

In terms of production, Lantian will adopt two methods, one is to produce drugs by itself, and the other is to entrust external pharmaceutical companies to produce.

Right now, they set their sights on Sanqing, which is far away in China, and quickly contacted Sanqing's Yingguo branch, hoping that Sanqing could become a supplier of generic drugs for rare diseases.

After all, although Valeant has been investigated, most of its more than 100 drugs are orphan drugs, and the price has not been reduced much.

Lantian can produce common medicines by itself, but rare medicines have few patients, and the benefits of producing them outweigh the losses, so it is better to find a suitable supplier.

After Wei Kang received the news, he was stunned. He didn't expect that all the hospitals in Yingguo would be forced to revolt due to high drug prices, and he couldn't help being a little amazed.

However, this is a good opportunity to enter the terminal of Yingguo Hospital, and he cannot give up. Moreover, he is also happy to see that he can bring humanitarian glory to Yingguo patients as much as possible.

The two parties quickly reached a strategic cooperation agreement, Sanqing produced and exported orphan drugs, and Lantian Pharmaceuticals imported the drugs directly to more than 500 hospitals across the country at cost prices.

It can be said that everyone is happy.

After this matter was reported by the media of the two countries, it was immediately spread as a good talk.

The media praised that this is the correct way to open up the cooperation between the pharmaceutical companies of the two countries, and it is simply the light of the right way.

Netizens nodded, the two sides joined hands to fight against high-priced drugs, well done, please persevere vigorously, don't stop!
As for Lotus and Weilang, bah, it's a disgrace to mankind!
The corpses should be nailed to the pillar of shame and flogged a hundred times a day!

******
Haishi, a quiet cafe in the HQ district.

There were six people sitting around a table in the corner, most of them were young people, with excited smiles on their faces at the moment, applauding and celebrating.

One of them was a young man in his early thirties, wearing a well-fitting dark blue suit, revealing a white shirt and a black vest. He looked around and said energetically, "Today is our 'Infinite Gene'." It's the day when the bio-hacking team was established, and this should be the first in China, hehe, we've also made history."

"Although there are not many people in our team, we are full of talents and have unlimited potential. The six of us are full-time members. We have known each other for a while. You are welcome to communicate more. The other four members are still in the probationary period. Wait for them to get familiar with the team. After that, our membership will be in double digits."

The rest of the people nodded with joy.

A biohacker, as the name suggests, refers to someone who tinkers with biological technology in his spare time and works to create new life forms as part of a burgeoning do-it-yourself biology (bio-DIY) movement.

Due to the tremendous changes brought about by gene editing technology, biohacker groups have grown rapidly around the world, and have now grown to more than 100, covering Eagle Country, Europa, Maple Leaf Country, Kangaroo Country, Latin America and Asia.

All members come from different backgrounds, almost none of them have received scientific training in biochemistry, and they pay a small monthly fee to cover the cost of rent, reagents and equipment needed to maintain the shared laboratory. Affordable prices are open to anyone interested in biotechnology.

Biohacking groups have projects that range from creating genetically modified bacteria to creating new forms of artistry to modifying yeast to make craft beer.

Biohacking is very common overseas, and there are tens of thousands of people in Eagle Country, many of whom are various celebrities, and even some well-known Internet celebrities have appeared.

Their basic idea is that genetic technology is the most powerful and destructive force in the world, and this power should not only be controlled by governments and multinational corporations, but biotechnology should be accessible to everyone.

If biotechnology cannot be recognized and used by ordinary people, it will not be able to bring about real changes in society, so that everyone in society will not be able to benefit from it.

There has always been an open source culture and hacker tradition in the history of computer technology development. Without open source Linux and Android systems, it would be difficult for people to enjoy today's cheap and diverse smartphones.

Nowadays, biotechnology is developing rapidly, and popularization of science and technology is a trend. Anyone who wants to study life science and technology will face the triple difficulties of ethics, cost, and system. The emergence of biohackers is to break the monopoly. Technology has spread to the masses like computer technology.

Thankfully, biohackers' vision is becoming a reality, thanks to improvements in biotechnology itself.

With the popularization of third-generation gene sequencing technology and third-generation gene editing technology, the cost of reading and editing genes is becoming lower and lower, and ordinary people are becoming more and more accessible to the most advanced life Science & Technology.

Now, the price of sequencing a person's whole genome is about 4000 yuan, while the price of sequencing a colony has dropped to 18 yuan, and the price of synthesizing a base of DNA has dropped to 1.2 yuan.

With the development of new technologies, gene editing technology has become more and more accessible to the people. In Eagle Country, on some biohacker webpages, a set of third-generation gene editing experiment kits for microorganisms is only available for $200.

The reading price of scientific and technological papers has also become cheaper and cheaper due to the efforts of researchers who are anti-knowledge monopoly.

In the past, if a person did not belong to a large institution such as a university or a large enterprise, the average cost for him to read the latest paper on the Internet was about 33 US dollars, but now, anyone can find the most cutting-edge papers he is interested in for free on the website knowledge.

This means that even in a developing country like China, an ordinary person from an urban middle-class family can fully rely on his own ability to practice his own creativity.

Most of the revolutionary information technology innovations at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century came out of their own garages and university dormitories.

As the earliest hacker members in the Home Computer Club, Jobs and his partner assembled the first fruit laptop in their garage.Sergey and Page's Google company also came out of a friend's garage.Zuckerberg created the prototype of Facebook in his dorm room.

For most of the history of the life sciences, important scientific discoveries were made in laboratories that were not as well-equipped as a modern kitchen.

Scientists 100 years ago did not have refrigeration equipment, stable power supply, clean water, electric mixers, and fresh-keeping and anti-bacterial measures. They still developed vaccines, developed the theory of bacteria, and established modern genetics.

However, contemporary biohackers have more advanced equipment and instruments, better basic theories, and sharper gene editing weapons than their predecessors, and they are bound to make even more amazing discoveries.

At this moment, the wave of bio-hacking has finally spread to the country. These young and energetic bio-hackers in Haishi have known each other for a long time on the Internet, and they share similar interests, so they formally gathered together and established the first bio-hacking group.

They are all enthusiastic about the infinite possibilities brought by the latest CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, because this technology is very precise, and it is very fast, cheap and easy to use, making it an ideal technology for amateur biotechnologists.

Although these few are not professionals, they are all highly educated, smart and eager to learn. They have taught themselves biology, genetics, and genes on the Internet, so they are eager to try.

Originally, the biggest difficulty facing them was the shared laboratory. They had searched several times in Haishi, but the rental laboratory was very expensive and troublesome, and the equipment was relatively old.

A while ago, Sanqing’s shared laboratory was born out of nowhere. The price is affordable, the materials and equipment are complete, and the distance is not far away. They specially visited Kunming City and there is a large biological laboratory available for them to use.

This is simply because everything is ready and only owes Dongfeng, and a few people immediately set up a biohacking team.

Of course, each of them chose to become a biohacker for something other than interest.

Zhang Han, the team leader in a suit and leather shoes, is a returnee from the Bull Country. When he was in Wudu, he came into contact with bio-hacking and was very interested. He has a wealthy family and chose to become a bio-hacker to explore the mysteries of life. , This is also a common problem of many rich people.

Li Chengmin, who has a round face, wears glasses, and has a gentle personality, is a programmer for a state-owned enterprise. His purpose of becoming a biohacker is simple.

There is a civet cat in his family who has been with him for many years and is too old to move. After seeing news about cloning cats on the Internet, he couldn't help but come up with the idea of ​​cloning the old cat at home and continuing to accompany him.

The price of pet cloning by biotechnology companies is very expensive, often starting at [-]. After some understanding, he became interested in biotechnology, so he began to learn by himself to find friends and embarked on the road of biohacking.

As for Gao Jun, who has a simple face and a strong body, his purpose is more direct. He wants a pig that can resist diseases.

(End of this chapter)