{"id":16131,"date":"2015-08-14T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/first-3d-printed-drug-ushers-in-era-of-downloadable-medicine-singularity-hub"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:18","slug":"first-3d-printed-drug-ushers-in-era-of-downloadable-medicine-singularity-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/first-3d-printed-drug-ushers-in-era-of-downloadable-medicine-singularity-hub","title":{"rendered":"First 3D-Printed Drug Ushers in Era of Downloadable Medicine \u2014 Singularity HUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-3d-printed-drug-ushers-in-era-of-downloadable-medicine-singularity-hub.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the FDA approved the first 3D-printed prescription drug, essentially validating the technology as a new heavyweight player in big pharma. \u201cThis may be the first truly mass manufactured product made by 3D printing,\u201d said Dr. Michael Cima, a professor at MIT who helped invent the pill-printing technology back in 1997, in an email to Singularity Hub. \u201cIt\u2019s revolutionary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The printed pill, SPRITAM levetiracetam, is a drug that fights many kinds of epileptic seizures. The brainchild of a little-known Ohio-based company Aprecia, SPRITAM is essentially an old drug ingredient packaged into a brand new, more effective delivery system. Unlike current formulations of the same drug, SPRITAM immediately dissolves upon contact with water and bursts into effect \u2014 a property obviously beneficial when trying to curtail sudden-onset seizure episodes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/08\/14\/first-3d-printed-drug-ushers-in-era-of-downloadable-medicine\/?utm_content=bufferc5a45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the FDA approved the first 3D-printed prescription drug, essentially validating the technology as a new heavyweight player in big pharma. \u201cThis may be the first truly mass manufactured product made by 3D printing,\u201d said Dr. Michael Cima, a professor at MIT who helped invent the pill-printing technology back in 1997, in an email [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,47,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69721,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions\/69721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}