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MIT develops portable pharmaceutical manufacturing system that can be reconfigured to produce a variety of drugs on demand.
Able to manufacture about 1,000 doses of one of four different drugs in 24 hours.
Chemical reactions take place in small tubes as opposed to the huge vats batch processing.
Next steps are to reduce the size, increase complexity of drugs and to produce tablets (rather than liquid drugs).
The study was published in the Science journal.
COMMENT: In future this will also allow your local pharmacy to produce personalised medicines perfectly balanced for your physiology.
