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Draper’s devices take on cell therapy’s pain points

Non-profit Draper is betting its microfluidic and acoustic devices will lower barriers to cell therapy manufacturing

November 1, 2019 1:21 AM UTC
Updated on Nov 1, 2019 at 5:44 PM UTC

Having surveyed more than 60 cell therapy developers on what keeps them up at night, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. is building a suite of microfluidic and acoustic tools to overcome the inefficiencies that plague cell engineering.

Founded in the 1930s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to engineer aeronautical instruments and spun out as an independent non-profit in the 1970s, Draper first moved into the life sciences via government defense projects. ...

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