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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6468440" data-attributes="member: 19675">Like I said, &quot;not with any efficiency.&quot;&nbsp; Compounding takes a fair bit of time: there is something my mom had to get from a local compounding pharmacy here in D/FW, one of our country's top 10 metropolitan areas.&nbsp; It took them nearly a week to get the supplies for that particular combo.And as for the base materials point you're raising, Prof. Lee Cronin of Glascow University is one who talking about doing exactly that.&nbsp; He is working towards using 3D printing to make pharmaceuticals from base elements &amp; some simple reagents.&nbsp; While he says he's still 5-10 years away from a real commercially viable &quot;chemputer&quot; (as he calls them), at a TEDtalk, he did claim that his prototype model successfully produced ibuprofen.Like the dress, it was probably slowly and inefficiently made, and even more likely, was not pure enough to be medically useful,mwhich is why he has said that his work is in &quot;the Sci-Fi&quot; stage.<a href="http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/" target="_blank">http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6468440, member: 19675"] Like I said, "not with any efficiency." Compounding takes a fair bit of time: there is something my mom had to get from a local compounding pharmacy here in D/FW, one of our country's top 10 metropolitan areas. It took them nearly a week to get the supplies for that particular combo. And as for the base materials point you're raising, Prof. Lee Cronin of Glascow University is one who talking about doing [i]exactly[/i] that. He is working towards using 3D printing to make pharmaceuticals from base elements & some simple reagents. While he says he's still 5-10 years away from a real commercially viable "chemputer" (as he calls them), at a TEDtalk, he did claim that his prototype model successfully produced ibuprofen. Like the dress, it was probably slowly and inefficiently made, and even more likely, was not pure enough to be medically useful,mwhich is why he has said that his work is in "the Sci-Fi" stage. [url]http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/[/url] [/QUOTE]

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