Shrinking down, speeding up drug production

Caitlin Wilson | June 30, 2016 | Health Exec | Precision Medicine

A machine at MIT the size of a regular refrigerator can make 1,000 pills in 24 hours, according to The Atlantic.

Developers said it could be used to churn out mass amounts of a specific drug in an emergency. Or the Defense Department could use it to bring drug manufacturing right into field hospitals or break down geographic barriers to the distribution of medicine.

It’s a totally different process than how pharmaceuticals are normally produced, the makers said. It’s a departure from the one-batch-at-a-time procedure most companies currently follow.

Read the rest of the story at The Atlantic.

A Drug Factory the Size of a Refrigerator

Caitlin Wilson,

Senior Writer

As a Senior Writer at TriMed Media Group, Caitlin covers breaking news across several facets of the healthcare industry for all of TriMed's brands.

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