UC San Diego Researches Growing Medicines in Space for Long Missions

A new study from UC San Diego explores the possibility of astronauts growing medicines on board spacecraft to address the issue of drug expiration on long-duration missions like those to Mars.

23 Jul, 18:31 — 23 Jul, 18:31

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Times of IndiaMostly Factual34d ago

Astronauts may grow Medicines: UC San Diego tests space pharma

More than half the medicines stocked on the ISS expire within three years, a serious problem for a Mars mission lasting around 400 days. A new University of California San Diego study offers a fix: grow the drugs on board. Researchers cultivated cowpea mosaic virus, a cancer-fighting plant virus, on tobacco-relative and black-eyed pea plants in simulated microgravity, then extracted it without killing the plant.

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