Researchers have designed a vaccine printer that can produce COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on the go, as part of the intense effort to get more people inoculated.
Published on April 24 in Nature Biotechnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists said their current vaccine printer prototype can produce 100 thumbnail-sized patches in 48 hours, with the potential to be scaled up to generate up to hundreds of vaccine doses a day.
“We could someday have on-demand vaccine production,” Ana Jaklenec, a scientist from MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research said.
“If, for example, there was an Ebola outbreak in a particular region, one could ship a few of these printers there and vaccinate the people in that location.”…