“These pods cost about $20 million. Ship it to a research hospital. And if they specialize in any types of therapies for those people that are in the N of one category, they can make it and iterate very quickly there.”

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Built portable manufacturing pods (size of a tractor trailer) that can be shipped anywhere and configured for specific drugs

about $20 million per pod

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