These genius high school students recreated the $750 HIV drug for only $2, and we can’t stop clapping

After infamous pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli increased the cost of a life-saving HIV drug by 5000 percent, a group of Australian high school students created a replica – that costs $2 to make. You read that right — ONLY $2.

Shkreli is well-known (and well-hated) for raising the cost of Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to a whopping $750.

High school students from Sydney Grammar School in Australia set out to see if they could create a replica – which they did, for only $2. That is, of course, beyond impressive, but thanks to a loophole in U.S. law, the drug won't be making appearances in the U.S. anytime soon.

“While the drug is out of patent, Martin’s Turing Pharmaceuticals controls its distribution and sale through a loophole called the ‘closed distribution model’,” University of Sydney Associate Professor Matthew Todd told the Herald. “To take the drug to market as a generic, you need to compare it to Turing’s product. If Turing won’t allow the comparisons to take place, you’d need to fund a whole new trial.”

#ICYMI: These school kids managed to recreate #Daraprim's active ingredient for just $20 pic.twitter.com/3lu4BaysOg

— ABC News (@abcnews) November 30, 2016

The good news is, replications like this will continue to raise awareness about the drug and the loophole Shkreli is exploiting.

If high school students can make the drug in a lab for $2, Shkreli has no business selling it for $750. Good work, boys.