All Your Prescriptions Can Be Combined In One Pill With This 3D Printing Service

Harin - Jul 22, 2019


All Your Prescriptions Can Be Combined In One Pill With This 3D Printing Service

Personalized pharmaceutical products company Multiply Labs is working on a single, 3D-printed “daily capsule tailored around the needs of each patient.”

Multiply Labs, a company specializing in personalized pharmaceutical products envisions a future where patients do not have to swallow a combination of different pills placed in plastic pill divider case.

In a Medium post by Fred Parietti, the company’s CEO, the promise of the startup is a single “daily capsule tailored around the needs of each patient” which will be 3D-printed.

Following prescriptions could be challenging sometimes, especially when you have to take multiple pills. In different cases, a certain drug’ exact dosage doesn’t even exist, so the doctors need to prescribe two pills to make up for that needed dosage. Or there are scenarios where a single pill’s smaller dose isn’t available.

The specially manufactured pill of Multiply Labs has several compartments, each of a specific prescribed drug based on the prescription of a patient. By alternating the wall’s thickness of the compartments, the releasing and dissolving of the drugs can happen at the exact right time.

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The specially manufactured pill of Multiply Labs has several compartments, each of a specific prescribed drug based on the prescription of a patient.

And with 3D printing, these pills’ mass manufacturing is absolutely possible.

With traditional mass-manufacturing machinery, it is impossible to produce personalized single-capsule pill. The only possible way is to deploy cutting-edge robotic technology.

The manufacturing process of Multiply Labs is run entirely by robots. The order, in this case, a personalized prescription, is sent to the system. Within minutes, the system will form that unique capsules. The process consists of two different steps: capsule forming and capsule filling.

Parietti wrote:

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The idea of the smart pill will be presented at two major pharma manufacturing conferences which will be held later this year.

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