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Precision manufacturing for clinical-quality regenerative medicines
Author(s) -
David Williams,
Robert J. Thomas,
Paul Hourd,
Amit Chandra,
Elizabeth Ratcliffe,
Yang Liu,
Erin A. Rayment,
J. Richard Archer
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society a mathematical physical and engineering sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.074
H-Index - 169
eISSN - 1471-2962
pISSN - 1364-503X
DOI - 10.1098/rsta.2011.0049
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , regenerative medicine , precision medicine , process (computing) , quality (philosophy) , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , demographics , manufacturing engineering , clinical practice , emerging technologies , reliability engineering , engineering , stem cell , business , medicine , artificial intelligence , power (physics) , philosophy , physics , demography , epistemology , pathology , quantum mechanics , sociology , biology , genetics , operating system , family medicine
Innovations in engineering applied to healthcare make a significant difference to people's lives. Market growth is guaranteed by demographics. Regulation and requirements for good manufacturing practice—extreme levels of repeatability and reliability—demand high-precision process and measurement solutions. Emerging technologies using living biological materials add complexity. This paper presents some results of work demonstrating the precision automated manufacture of living materials, particularly the expansion of populations of human stem cells for therapeutic use as regenerative medicines. The paper also describes quality engineering techniques for precision process design and improvement, and identifies the requirements for manufacturing technology and measurement systems evolution for such therapies.

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