Maria Chavez with Anthony Di Franco and Catherine Soneda It has been over a year since we launched the Open Insulin Project on Experiment.com. Not only has this year brought us closer to our goals – it’s highlighted to us the impact of insulin monopolies on society and welfare. Despite being a non-profit, volunteer, ever-in-flux […]

It’s been quite a busy summer with many developments outside of the lab that have given us a lot of new avenues to explore as we get back in the lab this fall. First, I was invited by Scott to join him on the Juice Box podcast at Arden’s Day to speak about our project. […]

Progress in the lab Things are getting really exciting here! We just finished designing our new proinsulin construct, and have successfully been growing cultures that contain the new construct. We are now moving on to expressing the proinsulin. If this succeeds, we’ll have accomplished our first milestone of expressing and purifying proinsulin. For background, a […]

Happy Belated New Year! We’ve all gotten back from holiday travel and have been busy the past couple weeks carrying out the first steps in our plan. We’ve grown up cultures of our proinsulin-gene-carrying e. coli, induced them to express it, and are now working on extracting the proinsulin and verifying that we’ve got it. […]