Transporting biopharmaceutical drugs for vaccines and treatments – produced in large fermentation plants – can be expensive, time-consuming and challenging to deliver to remote areas. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a portable device designed to manufacture a range of drugs on demand.
With medics on the battlefield and doctors in remote or developing parts of the world in mind, the team designed a compact portable production system that could potentially give patients in these areas rapid access to the drugs they need.
