{"id":238030,"date":"2026-05-30T03:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/freeze-dried-reagents-and-hand-powered-hardware-bring-biomanufacturing-to-remote-labs"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:29:13","slug":"freeze-dried-reagents-and-hand-powered-hardware-bring-biomanufacturing-to-remote-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/freeze-dried-reagents-and-hand-powered-hardware-bring-biomanufacturing-to-remote-labs","title":{"rendered":"Freeze-dried reagents and hand-powered hardware bring biomanufacturing to remote labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/freeze-dried-reagents-and-hand-powered-hardware-bring-biomanufacturing-to-remote-labs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto\u2019s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, working with collaborators around the world, have demonstrated the effectiveness of a suite of low-cost, portable biotechnology tools designed to improve access to laboratory research and diagnostics in resource-limited settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeb7039\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the study highlights how decentralized biomanufacturing tools and freeze-dried reagents can help researchers produce high-value biological materials locally\u2014reducing reliance on fragile international supply chains and expanding access to life sciences innovation globally.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by Keith Pardee, associate professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, alongside collaborators including Camila Gonz\u00e1lez in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, Fern\u00e1n Federici in Santiago, Chile, and Lindomar Pena in Recife, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto\u2019s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, working with collaborators around the world, have demonstrated the effectiveness of a suite of low-cost, portable biotechnology tools designed to improve access to laboratory research and diagnostics in resource-limited settings. Published in Science Advances, the study highlights how decentralized biomanufacturing tools and freeze-dried reagents [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238030","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}