stackyFACTSWhy pay to invent the wheel twice? When producing a generic counterpart, manufacturers legally skip the massively expensive multi-year clinical trials. They only have to prove 'bioequivalence'—meaning their cheap copycat molecule acts virtually identical in systemic circulation compared to the heavily researched original.
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