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Working in my garage, I custom built a mosquito test chamber, created artificial perspiration with varied concentrations of ingredients, and after innumerable hours of testing and analyzing data, was able to discover the role of ammonia in the attraction of mosquitoes to humans.

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After experimenting with more than a dozen different formulations, drying them with custom-made machinery and heating them in ovens to test shelf life, Nektar hit upon a successful recipe that mixes insulin with glycine (an amino acid), citrate (the salt of an organic acid found in humans) and mannitol (a sugar used in intravenous products).

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Entrepreneurs can test real demand, and collect startup capital, for hypothetical products through their own custom sites without giving up customer data and high fees to Kickstarter or Indiegogo.

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