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This miniature drug factory fits on a few lab benches

Automated system takes only 80 hours to turn out hundreds of doses of a medical product made by living organisms.
Photograph of an operational InSCyT system

A protein-based drug is made in a reaction vessel (silver box, left) before passing over columns of purifying chemicals (slender white cylinders, middle). Credit: L. E. Crowell et al./Nat. Biotechnol.

An all-in-one bench-top system can churn out hundreds or thousands of doses of a medically useful protein in a few days — and can easily switch to manufacturing other proteins.

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Nature 562, 166-167 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06929-6

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