In the days before insulin, there was nothing to do for people with type 1 diabetes. Frederick Banting and his colleagues decided to give away their discovery of insulin as a free drug. But over time, private enterprise entered the picture in an attempt to make insulin more widely available. The company that discovered insulin sold its patent for $1; it's now worth billions.

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