Inventing A Machine That Spits Out Drugs In A Whole New Way

(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News)

In a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all the work that happens in a vast pharmaceutical manufacturing plant happens in a device the size of your kitchen refrigerator.

And it’s fast. This prototype machine produces 1,000 pills in 24 hours, faster than it can take to produce some batches in a factory. Allan Myerson, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT and a leader of the effort, says it could become eventually an option for anyone who makes medications, which typically require a lengthy and complex process of crystallization.

“We’re giving them an alternative to traditional plants and we’re reducing the time it takes to manufacturer a drug,” he said. Read article here…..

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