Why is insulin dominated by a few companies globally and if bacteria are used to produce human insulin, why can no other company replicate this?

Question

Why is insulin dominated by a few companies globally and if bacteria are used to produce human insulin, why can no other company replicate this?

In: Biology

Answer 1

There is a new company attempting to make it to sell it much much cheaper and under cut those massive companies. The problem is it us a difficult process and funding is bit easy to come by