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The Rise of Backyard Biotech
Powered by social networking, file sharing, and e-mail, a new cottage industry is bringing niche drugs to market.

By QUINN NORTON

...The low cost structure of companies such as FerroKin—old-fashioned drug development can eat up hundreds of millions of dollars—translates into more variety in the market, and more niche drugs targeting neglected or rare diseases. Being small allowed Tioga Pharmaceuticals of San Diego, for example, to keep developing a drug for irritable bowel syndrome that the pharmaceutical giant Merck had cut from its long-term strategy.

The drug that FerroKin plans to bring to market in 2015 will help people who have congenital anemias and thus may depend on regular blood transfusions...

...The small industries and biotech freelancers springing up are, in some ways, like the divisions of the old behemoth drug company, but connected only by the tendrils of the Internet, and the relationships that grow so easily there. Rienhoff is contemporary biotech’s answer to the lost Renaissance man. He pulls the renaissance effect out of the network around him, using the terrible complexity of the global community to fight the terrible complexity of disease. It’s the way science ought to work.
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