Summary:
«Customised medicines could one day be manufactured to patients’ individual needs, with University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers investigating technology to 3D ‘print’ pills.
The team, including Dr Andy Gleadall and Prof Richard Bibb at Loughborough University, identified a new additive manufacturing method to allow the 3D printing of medicine in highly porous structures, which can be used to regulate the rate of drug release from the medicine to the body when taken orally.»
Article written by UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
03|05|2021
Source:
EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/uoea-pmp043021.php