{"id":134132,"date":"2022-01-16T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/researchers-turn-smartphone-into-on-demand-personalized-drug-3d-printer"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:23:00","slug":"researchers-turn-smartphone-into-on-demand-personalized-drug-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/researchers-turn-smartphone-into-on-demand-personalized-drug-3d-printer","title":{"rendered":"Researchers turn smartphone into on-demand personalized drug 3D printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-turn-smartphone-into-on-demand-personalized-drug-3d-printer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/\">University College London<\/a> (UCL), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usc.gal\/gl\">Universidade de Santiago de Compostela<\/a> (USC) and biopharma firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fabrx.co.uk\/\">FabRx<\/a>, have managed to convert an everyday smartphone into an on-demand personalized drug 3D printer.<\/p>\n<p>Using the visible light created by a mobile phone screen, the modified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fabrx.co.uk\/technologies\/\">M3DIMAKER LUX<\/a> system has already proven capable of 3D printing blood-thinning tablets in specific shapes, sizes and dosages. Operable via a user-friendly app, it\u2019s hoped that with further R&amp;D, the team\u2019s machine could be deployed in future by those living in isolated areas, under the remote supervision of GPs to ensure patient safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis novel system would help people who need precise dosages that differ from how a medication is typically sold, as well as people whose required dosage may change regularly,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Xiaoyan Xu. \u201cThe tablet\u2019s shape and size are also customizable, which enables flexibility in the rate at which the medication gets released into the bloodstream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at University College London (UCL), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) and biopharma firm FabRx, have managed to convert an everyday smartphone into an on-demand personalized drug 3D printer. Using the visible light created by a mobile phone screen, the modified M3DIMAKER LUX system has already proven capable of 3D printing blood-thinning tablets in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}