Shrinking down, speeding up drug production

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.

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