Manufacturing your own drugs in your own home could soon be possible thanks to 3D printing

3D printing has come quite a long way since experts first started experimenting with it back in the 1980s. These days, it plays a huge role in the intersection of design, manufacturing, and prototyping for consumer products that would otherwise be stuck in industrial limbo, thanks to all of the necessary prerequisites.

Even in business settings, it can come in handy many times, mainly for producing specific items that need to be used for specific tasks or scenarios. One industry, in particular, which has benefited a lot more than others in this regard is none other than the medical industry. Often, there are customized solutions needed that only 3D printing can provide.

The same might as well be said for the pharmaceutical industry — consider the fact that it’s also a huge, highly complicated industry with often convoluted and painstakingly lengthy processes needed to manufacture pretty much anything. Something like a prescription drug that’s needed in certain remote areas could be produced that much quicker using open source methods applied to 3D printing.