Martin Shkreli swiftly earned transcontinental enmity when back in 2015 the ‘pharma bro’ jacked up the prices of life-saving HIV medication Daraprim from a modest $13.50 to an astronomical $750 overnight. But now it seems an ambitious group of Australian high school students from Sydney has found a much cheaper way to make the drug. The resourceful high-schoolers successfully recreated Daraprim’s key ingredient in their school lab. What’s particularly impressive is that the teenage collective managed to produce 3.7 grams of the compound Pyrimethamine for about $15 (or AU$20). The Sydney Grammar School pupils told ABC Australia they wanted to draw attention to the awfully inflated…
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