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3D Printed Paracetamol Tablets for Personalized Medicine

3D printing tablets helps controlling dosage and composition of drug treatments

15-Aug-2018

Key points from article :

Drugs affect everyone differently.

Dosages can be customized to suit people with different metabolic rates.

regenHU bioprinter created three different geometries – solid, ring, mesh.

Tablet surface area influenced the speed of the drug release.

Mesh tablets released 70% of drug within 15 minutes, only 12% for solid tablets.

High extrusion temperature of FDM 3D printing requires heat-stable active ingredients.

The study was published in AAPS PharmSciTech journal.

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AAPS PharmSciTech

Scientific journal covering all aspects of the pharmaceutical sciences.

FabRx

Specialist biotech company developing 3D printing technology for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Research and develop pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products

University of Nottingham

Public research university.

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3D Printing (Healthcare)