Comments on: A new way to create ‘building blocks’ for drugs

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 06:30:34 +0000

And middle men costs. Not to mention , it would incourage bootlegging.

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 06:28:01 +0000

Chemistry isn’t my field. I’m only referring to an article that appeared here the other day, that spoke of ” printing” drugs. The intellectual property was a point they brought up. You know how that goes. People will figure away around that, and down load for free. Another article hear also spoke of micro reaction vessels for drug production. It still would be far more than a single consumer would need, but it stated an increase of efficiency. Continuing this trend is a lecture by Profesor Drexeler himself, where he state that nano manufacturing is as much as one million times more efficient and was even an energy producer on occasions. You would probably enjoy that lecture. It’s about two hours long and is about his latest work, in regards to nanomanufacturing all three articles point to an increase of efficiency in reducing the scale of production. Doing in your own home would also cut out all packaging, shipping,storage

By: de Broglie

de Broglie — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:26:55 +0000

Chemistry is my field. You raise a very interesting point, Bri. The thing is that the material that make up chemicals are really expensive it and the price comes from the energy, capital equipment, and intellectual property. Conceivably if you downloaded the data to make certain drugs, you would just pay for the plans, energy, and basic inputs. Still it seems like chemical plants will always be vastly more efficient.

By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:09:14 +0000

Home drug synthesis is around the corner. Remember that BBC article on 3D printing? That’s going to hurt all those pension plans that have drug companies in their portfolios. The changes in the next ten years are going to be unparrelled!