Scientists’ biotech find could herald cheap pill revolution

SCIENTISTS claim to have found a way to produce medicines at a fraction of the price charged by big drug companies.

Scientists’ biotech find could herald cheap pill revolution

The move could enable millions of people in poor countries to be cured of life-threatening diseases.

Two British academics have devised a way of changing the molecular structure of an existing drug to turn it technically into a new medicine which is no longer under a 20-year patent to a multinational drug company and can be made and sold cheaply.

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