Categories: Top Stories

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.

The News Vista

Share
Published by
The News Vista

Recent Posts

‘You cannot behave like an Indian citizen’: HC to Imran Khan over Mumbai protest

Imran Khan, a US citizen and OCI card holder, faced a Leave India Notice from…

25 minutes ago

Cyclone Murasu to make landfall near at Andhra coast tonight; 120 kmph winds expected

Cyclone Murasu has intensified and is predicted to cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast soon.…

35 minutes ago

Surfer’s $5,000 acai bowl startup grows to 400 stores, $332m sales

From a small food cart in New Jersey to a booming enterprise, Playa Bowls exemplifies…

42 minutes ago

Louisiana family’s bid to overturn 30-year-old inheritance ruling fails

A Louisiana man died without a will in 1956, and a court recognised his daughter…

54 minutes ago