Open Insulin (nonfiction)
The Open Insulin project is an an organization dedicated to developing low-cost, do-it-yourself techniques for producing insulin.
Boing Boing reports:
The Open Insulin project ("a team of Bay Area biohackers working on newer, simpler, less expensive ways to make insulin") is trying to create an open source hardware system for making insulin in small batches, through a process that uses engineered yeast to "produce a modified proinsulin protein, and an enzyme to convert the modified proinsulin into insulin glargine" so that insulin co-ops can produce and test their own insulin for a cost "from ten thousand to a few tens of thousands of dollars."
The project is organized under Counter Culture Labs, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, making donations to it tax-deductible.