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Scientists show 3D printed tablet porosity can regulate drug release
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Investigators suggest using 3D printing to adjust tablet porosity could allow for personalised medicines to be made at the point-of-care.
Researchers have identified a new additive manufacturing method that could allow for personalised medicines to be three-dimensionally (3D) printed at the point-of-care in future. The 3D printing method creates medicines with highly porous structures, which can be tailored to regulate the rate of drug release when the medication is taken orally.
The team made up of University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers and Dr Andy Gleadall and Professor Richard Bibb of Loughborough University, set out to identify how porosity of a pharmaceutical tablet could alter their release kinetics
Personalized medicines could be manufactured with 3D printing technology
May 6 2021
Customized medicines could one day be manufactured to patients’ individual needs, with University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers investigating technology to 3D ‘print’ pills.
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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.
Dr Sheng Qi, a Reader in Pharmaceutics at UEA’s School of Pharmacy, led the research. The project findings, ‘Effects of porosity on drug release kinetics of swellable and erodible porous pharmaceutical solid dosage forms fabricated by hot melt droplet deposition 3D printing’, are published today in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
New Additive Manufacturing Method Could Allow 3D Printing of Custom Medicine
Written by AZoMMay 4 2021
A study by scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) analyzed technology to 3D “print” pills and demonstrated that customized medicines could someday be manufactured as per individual requirements of patients.
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The research group, which also included Dr Andy Gleadall and Professor Richard Bibb from Loughborough University, has discovered a new additive manufacturing technique to enable the 3D printing of medicine in highly porous structures, which can further be utilized to control the drug release rate from the medicine to the body when it is consumed orally.